Israel's Supreme Court has overturned the Central Election Committee’s decision to disqualify the National Democratic Assembly (BALAD) and Ra'am Ta'al Arab parties from running in next month's Knesset elections. The Supreme Court decision was in response to a petition by veteran NIF grantee Adalah: Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

Adalah attorney Hassan Jabareen, who presented the petition, said that the attempt to disqualify BALAD and Ra'am Ta'al was "a tool of incitement of the right against the Arab parties."

Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch salvaged the Israeli elections with her decision.

The nine justice panel voted unanimously to overturn the ban on Ra'am Ta'al and by 8-1 to allow BALAD to run in the elections. Prior to the Supreme Court discussion on the matter, NIF together with some 40 social change organizations placed an ad in Haaretz which read, "There is no Israel without democracy and no democracy without a minority."