Israel Party leader
Mansour Abbas
منصور عباس מנצור עבאסLeader of Ra'am (United Arab List). First Arab-Israeli party leader to formally join a coalition government (Bennett-Lapid, 2021).
- Country
- Israel
- Party
- Ra'am (United Arab List)
- Role
- Party leader
Individual position
Scored from Mansour Abbas's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. The overlay shows Ra'am (United Arab List)'s profile for comparison. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.
Other politicians in Ra'am (United Arab List)
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
On the record
Quotes attributed to Mansour Abbas that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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We have decided to take a bold step, even though we know that this step has serious risks attached to it.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Hebrew 2021-04-01 Mansour Abbas prime-time address: 'coexistence based on mutual respect', 1 Apr 2021 (English translation of Hebrew original)
"I carry a prayer of hope, and the search for coexistence based on mutual respect and genuine equality. What we have in common is greater than what divides us." "I, Mansour Abbas, a man of the Islamic Movement, am a…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mansour Abbas [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mansour-abbas
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mansour Abbas." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mansour-abbas.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mansour-abbas,
title = {{Mansour Abbas}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mansour-abbas},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.