Joint List leader Ayman Odeh told MEE:
“We reached our goals. We are the third biggest party. The voting percentage among the Arab population was the highest since 1999, and we will prevent the right-wing from creating the next government. The joint list is a success story: we are at the heart of a historical event."
Wael Omri, 53, a voter from Nazareth said:
“I think it's a historic event. It's the first time the Arabs come together: you can see the journalists everywhere. We've never seen this before: a point when all the world and Israel sees that Arabs here as a big power, [and see] that we can have our rights. We want to see a government in Israel that says yes to our rights.”