# Mansour Abbas bets on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

https://mins.news/en/item/46444

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-05 08:40 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/5/mansour-abbas-is-betting-on-a-zionist-to-make-arab-votes-count?traffic_source=rss

> Raam leader Mansour Abbas has placed openly Zionist former senior police commander Yoav Segalovich second on the party’s electoral slate. The move is less about winning Jewish votes than testing whether Palestinian representation can gain greater weight in Israeli coalition politics, despite the ideological distance between the two men.