Early last week Nachi Eyal, chairman of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, called upon the prime minister and the minister of the Interior to prevent MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad-National Democratic Assembly) from reentering Israel.
In a Palestinian Authority Nakba Day assembly in Ramallah, MK Zahalka said that "peace in the land, freedom, independence and coexistence will be possible only with the end of the Zionist hegemony, and not through compromise with it."
In response to those comments, Eyal stated that: "Zahalka is following in the footsteps of former Balad party leader Azmi ...
Arab party determined to see High Court overturn elections committee decision to ban it from running in coming elections. 'As a party that represents hundreds of thousands of voters it is our duty to be in the Knesset,' says party MK. A day after the central elections committee decided to disqualify Arab parties Balad and United Arab List-Ta'al from running in the upcoming elections, Balad's political bureau announced it would petition the High Court of Justice to overturn the decision. "We decided to exhaust all possible measures in order to be able to take part in the elections," said Balad ...
Musa Abu Kishk, a 52-year-old resident of Lod was murdered yesterday evening as he stood in his kiosk at the Lod central bus station. The police are investigating various theories, however at this time there does not appear to be a connection between this and two other murders that have occurred in the town recently. Abu Kishk was a well-known personality in Lod, and was a leading activist in the city's Balad party. From an investigation by the police's Central District Investigations and Intelligence Department it was learned that shortly after midnight on Monday amasked person entered the ...
