Bayit Yehudi

Ayelet Shaked receives just 80,000 votes, throws support behind Netanyahu

Ayelet Shaked thanked her supporters for voting for her and expressed hope that a stable right-wing government would be formed by Netanyahu in the coming days.

 Ayelet Shaked, Interior Minister and head of the Jewish Home party casts her vote at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset Elections, on November 01, 2022.
 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at The Jerusalem Post's London conference on March 31, 2022.

Israel Elections: Ayelet Shaked fights on despite low polling numbers

 A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Israel Elections: Don't be pressured into changing your vote - opinion

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked (L) during a vote at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on December 21, 2016, during the state budget vote for 2017-2018.

If Netanyahu supports Shaked, right bloc could win 62 seats - poll


Bayit Yehudi plotting to bring down leader Rafi Peretz

A meeting has been called by Bayit Yehudi MK Moti Yogev and former MK and deputy defense minister Eli Ben-Dahan for party members to discuss ways to “renew and rehabilitate” Bayit Yehudi.

Israel's Education minister Rafi Peretz

Religious-Zionist parties; Outward unity, inner turmoil

Making order of the political chaos in the religious-Zionist sector.

THE ONE uniting factor of practically the entire spectrum of the religious-Zionist world is that it is right-wing on Israel’s security and the conflict with the Palestinians.

Negotiations between Smotrich and Peretz fall apart

Merger negotiations between The National Union and Bayit Yehudi have broken down, as both parties seek ways to clear the electoral threshold and not lose votes for the Right.

Bezalel Smotrich and Rabbi Rafi Peretz after signing the agreement with the National Union.

Religious journalist offered number two spot on Bayit Yehudi list, refuses

Bayit Yehudi is searching for new electoral firepower to excite its base and appease party members.

Shimon Riklin (second from right) poses with Bayit Yehudi activists at Hebrew University

Israelis shocked by Rafi Peretz's latest homophobic comments

Itamar Ben Gvir, the head of the Otzma Yehudit party, expressed shock at the uproar, telling 103FM that he “doesn’t understand the assault on Rafi Peretz. What, have we turned into Iran?"

LGBTQ youth protest against far right Noam party at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem

Rafi Peretz: I'm not prepared to compromise on our Jewish identity

Peretz also rejected accusations that his recent unity deal with the far-right Otzma Yehudi party, was designed to preserve his leadership of the religious-Zionist political camp

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at The Jerusalem Post-Maariv Group Conference, December 25, 2019

Bayit Yehudi in ‘existential crisis’ as Peretz pressured to allow primary

These demands have come from Bayit Yehudi deputy mayors, municipal council members and local party branch chiefs who have denounced what they describe as an assault on the party’s institutions.

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Bayit Yehudi leaders rebuke Rafi Peretz over union with far-right Otzma

Bayit Yehudi officials said that party leader Rafi Peretz was “continuing to conduct political tricks without people of his party.”

MK Rafi Peretz, 2019.

Religious Zionist Bayit Yehudi and far-right Otzma Yehudit to run together

The leaders of the two groups revealed the decision in a joint statement, inviting National Union leader and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join the list.

Rafi Peretz and Itamar Ben Gvir.

Bayit Yehudi and National Union in merger discussions

Former Bayit Yehudi leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked tried in vain to make the party more socially liberal and less beholden to the religious-Zionist rabbis.

Bayit Yehudi and National Union agree to run on joint list