Ayman Odeh (Haifa, 1975), is an Israeli Arab lawyer and politician. Since 2015 he leads the Hadash party, a leftist political coalition that advocates Jewish-Arab cooperation. Odeh started his political career in the ranks of Hadash in Haifa, back in 1998. He run for the 2009 and 2013 elections to the Knesset, but he did not manage to get a seat due to insufficient results. In 2015, after the resignation of Mohammed Barakeh, he became the leader of Hadash and run to the election as Head of the Arab Joint List, a coalition of Israel’s four Arab political parties, obtaining 13 seats. The alliance split before the 2019 April elections, but reunited ahead of the ones in September, when it became the third political force in the Israeli Parliament, with 13 seats. Despite his willingness to join a coalition government led by the Blue and White Party, this possibility was ruled out in Benny Gantz’s failed attemp to form a government. Odeh believes that only the union of all Arab parties will have a chance to “overthrow the right-wing government” of Benjamin Netanyahu and will also help to prevent “racism, annexation and the destruction of democracy”.