Coordinating positions with Eisenkot? Arab party leaders speak with senior Torah Judaism officials

Heads of Ra'am and the Joint List are in ongoing contact with senior officials from Torah Judaism, updating each other on negotiations with the Change Bloc. Mansour Abbas recommended opening talks on a conscription law. Yaakov Asher spoke with Abbas and Tibi, but his office said the conversations were casual.

Heads of Ra'am and the Joint List are in ongoing contact with senior officials from Torah Judaism, as part of a contact axis in which the parties update each other on negotiations with the Change Bloc. This was first reported by Kan News. Mansour Abbas recommended in one of his conversations with Torah Judaism leaders to open talks with the Change Bloc on legislating a conscription law, in order to grant cross-camp legitimacy to a lenient arrangement on the issue. Yaakov Asher spoke with Abbas and Ahmad Tibi, but his office said the conversations were casual. In the past, parliamentary cooperation was forged between the Arab and Haredi parties, such as Gafni's attempt to advance Tibi's initiative to freeze the Kaminitz Law in 2020, and Ra'am's withdrawal of support for the committee examining exemption from conscription for women in 2021.