Mansour Abbas
![Mansour Abbas.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/05/23/01fcacb0-18d2-11ef-ae3e-5ba489b5eb8e__h4000_w6000.jpg)
Ra'am, the sole Arab party to serve in a governing coalition, issued a statement condemning a number of alleged actions by the IDF in the Gaza Strip as war crimes.
![Temple Mount.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/05/a414ff60-db20-11ee-87ff-7f8f8e59a688__h2327_w3491.jpg)
Ramadan, Temple Mount
The Prime Minister and the government thus rejected National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's efforts to restrict or bar Muslim entry to the Temple Mount altogether.
![Attacked for his statement, and for his clarification. MK Mansour Abbas.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/12/03/179958c0-91c3-11ee-bc33-7941d28036f3__h331_w650.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War, Mansour Abbas
Having previously argued that Palestinian terrorist groups need to lay down their arms to allow the formation of a Palestinian state, Abbas clarified his statement after fierce criticism.
![For the First Time: Mansour Abbas Met with the Families of the Abductees](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/06/4d4592e0-7cc9-11ee-992b-1b516497ddb9__h331_w650.jpg)
Meeting Between Abbas and the Families
For the first time since the beginning of the war, the chairman of the Islamic Ra'am list Mansour Abbas came to a meeting with the headquarters of the families of the abducted and missing persons.
![Ra'am Leader to the Faction's MK: Resign Immediately](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/05/da5a9330-7bff-11ee-86b6-1123a72ebd00__h331_w650.jpg)
Ra'am: Resign Immediately
Following her statements, in which she claimed that Hamas terrorists did not slaughter infants or rape women, the leader of the Ra'am party informed Knesset Member Iman Khatib-Yassin that she must resign from the Knesset immediately.
![Ra'am Party Chairman Mansour Abbas.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/30/4f500090-7731-11ee-ae52-c31d6bbd7019__h331_w650.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War, Israeli Arabs
The Ra'am Party Chairman stressed the dangers of inciting material online and spoke of how the devastation in Gaza causes him pain.
![Mansour Abbas in an appeal to the terrorist organizations: "against the values of Islam"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/09/4f7e1760-66c8-11ee-b177-59b3ed0fceec__h331_w650.jpg)
"Against the Values of Islam"
Mansour Abbas calls on terrorist organizations to return the elderly, children, and women they have abducted: "Islamic values command us not to imprison women, children, and the elderly"
![Mansour Abbas: "Ben-Gvir is in a completely different world"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/09/27/36280d40-5d52-11ee-9c9b-03b32e04a4fc__h331_w650.png)
Mansour Abbas Strongly Criticizes
Leader of the Ra'am party, Member of Knesset Mansour Abbas, strongly criticized the government's handling of the events following the incident in Basmat Tab'un. In an interview, he said, "We are warning and demanding that the Prime Minister take responsibility and remove the minister from his position"
![Smotrich: "There are more important needs than Ra'am's political funds"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/08/07/5ecb3640-3517-11ee-9179-9b0c1e362d93__h331_w650.jpg)
Smotrich's Response to Arbel's Letter
The Minister of Finance responds to the letter from the Minister of the Interior regarding the transfer of political funds to the Arab authorities: "This is political coalition money and has no professional justification"