Ayman Odeh

איימן עודה

Outgoing MK; former chair of Hadash and Hadash-Ta'al joint list

Haifa-born lawyer and outgoing leader of the Jewish-Arab communist party Hadash, replaced as chairman by Yousef Jabareen in May 2026.

Positions and record

Haifa-born lawyer and long-time activist in the communist Hadash party
Led Hadash from 2015 and headed the Joint List of Arab parties from 2015 until its breakup in 2022
Announced in 2023 he would not seek reelection; replaced as Hadash chair by former MK Yousef Jabareen in May 2026
Advocates a Palestinian state on the indefensible pre-1967 armistice lines with parts of Jerusalem as its capital, and is one of the sharpest Knesset critics of IDF operations in Gaza and of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
Drew condemnation across the political spectrum in January 2025 for a post equating released Israeli hostages with released Palestinian security prisoners, and again in May 2025 for declaring at a Haifa protest that 'Gaza has won and Gaza will win'
Survived a July 14, 2025 Knesset expulsion vote when only 73 of the 90 required MKs voted to remove him over those statements

Ayman Odeh, The State of Israel. https://thestateofisrael.com/mk/ayman-odeh