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It has happened again in the runup to the October 27 Israeli general elections. Yoav Segalovitz\u00a0\u2013 a former centrist lawmaker and deputy national security minister from 2021 to 2022\u00a0\u2013 sent shockwaves last month when he announced his decision to run on the election list of a moderate Islamist party. The United Arab List\u00a0\u2013 known by its Hebrew acronym, Raam\u00a0\u2013 made headlines in 2021 when its leader, Mansour Abbas, an Islamist politician, emerged as a kingmaker. Following the elections, Abbas went on to make history by becoming the first Israeli of Arab-Muslim origin to serve as a minister under the short-lived, 2021-2022 governing coalition of Naftali Bennett and secular centrist Yair Lapid. Read moreIslamist, dentist and \u2018gentleman\u2019: The rise of Israel\u2019s unlikely kingmaker Five years later, Abbas produced another shocker with his pick for a new number two for the 2026 elections. It was not an obvious choice. Dubbed the \"supercop\" by the Israeli media due to his extensive career tackling organised crime and corruption in Israel, Segalovitz is known for his tough demeanour, honed after years of interrogating high-level suspects as a law enforcement officer. He was never a peacenik, and he addressed the seeming incongruence of his latest political decision with characteristic bluntness. \u201cI am Jewish, a Zionist, secular, an officer in the IDF, and a police commissioner in Israel. Mansour is Arab, a practicing Muslim, and a conservative. What unites us is that we are both Israelis, and that is our shared identity. Yes, there are differences between us. Yes, there is a complicated history between Arabs and Jews in this country. But there is a shared future.\u201d Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and subsequent Gaza war, such statements are rare in the Israeli political landscape, where calls for revenge, murder, or the deportation of Palestinians from the occupied territories\u00a0\u2013 and even from Israel\u00a0\u2013 have increased. \u2018Why would an Arab need a Jewish police commander?\u2019 The 2026 Raam ticket is a milestone in Israeli politics, one that can be likened to a \u201crevolution\u201d, says Denis Charbit, a political science professor at the Open University of Israel. \u201cOctober 7 [2023] swept away the idea that one could cooperate with an Arab party, no matter how moderate it may be. The centrist parties that had invited the Raam party to join the coalition they formed in 2021 and 2022 are paralysed. They are yielding to the hegemony of the right, which portrays the participation of an Arab party in the government as a moral taboo in the wake of the October 7 massacres,\u201d he said. Indeed, when Bennett and Lapid announced their joint candidacy in April to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they explicitly ruled out the participation of \u201cnon-Zionist\u201d parties \u2014 namely, Arab parties as well as those representing ultra-Orthodox Jews. Segalovitz, for his part, believes that \u201cthe common assertion that, after October 7, it\u2019s impossible to establish a political partnership with Arab parties, is absurd and false\u201d.\u00a0 Speaking to the press on August 31, Abbas sought to reassure his voters about his new number two. \u201cI know what people will say. They\u2019ll ask me, \u2018Why would an Arab need a Jewish police commander?\u2019 My answer is simple: I\u2019m not looking for someone who\u2019s just like me. I\u2019m looking for someone who knows how to do the job.\u201d \n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n Yoav Segalovitz (foreground) and Mansour Abbas announce their candidacy on the Raam ticket in Nazareth on August 31, 2026. \u00a9 Jalaa Marley, AFP \n\n \u201cMansour Abbas, who takes a pragmatic approach to politics, states that the number one problem facing Arab-Palestinian society is organised crime, which is rampant in Arab communities,\u201d explained Charbit. \u201cThe death toll from January through August 2026 stands at 166, and exceeded 200 last year. However, Segalovitz, who had built his career in the Israeli police force, was specifically tasked with combating this crime and he achieved encouraging results in reducing the number of victims.\u201d\u00a0 Under\u00a0Israel\u2019s current National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a far-right firebrand who scrapped Segalovitz's law enforcement programme, killings in Arab communities have surged to record levels. On the campaign trail, Segalovitz has touted his crime-fighting record. \u201cThe state of personal security in Arab society is catastrophic. Our statistics are on a par with the worst countries in South America,\u201d he said in an interview with AFP. \u201cYou can\u2019t sustain an economy, a society, a culture, education or development when people are afraid to walk down\u00a0the\u00a0street,\"\u00a0he\u00a0added. Likely kingmaker role The announcement made by the two men was welcomed by the main leaders of the opposition to Netanyahu, who will undoubtedly need the support of parties representing Israeli Arabs\u00a0\u2013 or Palestinians in Israel\u00a0\u2013 in the new Knesset. A poll conducted on September 2 by Channel 13 showed the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot and the bloc led by Netanyahu and his far-right allies tied at 53 seats each in the 120-member Knesset. The two Arab parties, meanwhile, hold a combined total of 14 seats. Israeli Arabs make up 21% of the population. The presence of a prominent Jewish figure as the number two on an Arab party\u2019s ticket could therefore play a decisive role. \u201cThis goes beyond a political calculation. Raam, which is likely to win four to six seats, is not demanding ministerial posts for its leaders,\u201d noted Charbit. \u201cUnder the current circumstances, it is unlikely that an Arab politician would be appointed minister. With Yoav Segalovitz, Raam has its ideal candidate to serve as national security minister after Itamar Ben-Gvir.\u201d For his part, Ben-Gvir wasted no time slamming the new Raam ticket, describing the rapprochement as \u201ca joint plot by the left aimed at paving the way for a future government with the Muslim Brotherhood\u201d. In a message on X, the far-right politician posted a doctored image of a handshake between Abbas and Segalovitz featuring keffiyehs and Hamas flags on the table. \n \n \n To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.\n \n Ben-Gvir is capitalising on \u201ca genuine fear (that) has taken root among the Jewish population in Israel\u201d, notes Charbit.\u00a0 \u201cSegalovitz\u2019s candidacy seeks to overcome mistrust. He is, in a sense, declaring that he is not afraid, that he has met Arabs with whom he can forge an alliance. To assert that internal security is a matter of the public interest \u2014 one that is neither Jewish nor Arab \u2014 is disruptive. This is something unprecedented since 1948,\u201d he explained. On October 27, Israeli will vote in the first national elections since the October 7, 2023, massacres and the implementation of an illiberal and controversial judicial reform initiated by the Netanyahu government in 2022. Whatever\u00a0the\u00a0election\u00a0outcome,\u00a0Segalovitz\u00a0has urged Israeli Arabs to seek their place at the heart of the country\u2019s political decision-making. \u201cNo one loses their identity by having influence. 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