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


February 27, 2019: The wizards of Otzma

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Otzma gives up on delegates to Israel-Diaspora organizations

Bayit Yehudi-National Union plans to work to have an Otzma representative chosen as the opposition MK on the Judicial Selection Committee.

Betzalel Smotrich (L) and Michael Ben-Ari (R)

Jewish groups speak out against union of Bayit Yehudi with Otzma Party

"For decades, people who care about Israel across the political spectrum have largely agreed that Kahanists are a danger to Israeli democracy and have no place in its parliament.”

Baruch Marzel and MK Michael Ben-Ari at airport 390

Liberal modern-Orthodox rabbis slam PM’s ‘lamentable failure’ over Otzma Yehudit

They said that it was a “legitimate desire” for Netanyahu to seek victory for his political bloc but that the ends do not justify the means.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference, February 19th, 2019

U.S. Conservative Jewish movement joins critics of extremist Otzma Party

Otzma's leaders have described Israel's Arab population as being "in the majority of enemies of the Jewish people."

The late rabbi Meir Kahane, pictured here on a poster.

Otzma files NIS 100,000 lawsuit against Lau for slander

Rabbi Meir Kahane's call for separation between Jews and Arabs in the '80's is a red line for Rabbi Lau, but comparing his followers in the Otzma Yehudit party to Nazis is a red line for them.

Member of Knesset Meir Kahane of the Kach party (left) addressing the plenary session of Knesset, October 8, 1988

Female candidate quits Bayit Yehudi over Otzma merger

Ben-Ari, Ben-Gvir announced as Otzma’s Knesset candidates.

MK Orit Struck, Bayit Yehudi candidate Yifat Ehrlich, National Union chairman Bezalel Smotrich, Bayit Yehudi chairman Raffi Peretz and Bayit Yehudi CEO Nir Orbacha

Netanyahu paves path for Kahanists to enter Knesset

The agreement includes two cabinet seats for Bayit Yehudi as well as the 28th spot on the Likud’s list, to which Netanyahu is allowed to appoint someone.

HOW TIMES have changed. Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a Likud primaries event several years ago flanked by (from left) Silvan Shalom, Gilad Erdan, Carmel Shama and Gideon Sa’a’ar.

Bayit Yehudi, Otzma Yehudit agree to run on one list

The parties said they will form a “technical bloc” whereby Bayit Yehudi and National Union will be a joint faction, as they have been for the past two Knessets, and Otzma will operate independently.

Betzalel Smotrich (L) and Michael Ben-Ari (R)

Mutiny in Bayit Yehudi as candidates refuse to run with Otzma Yehudit

Otzma Yehudit is led by students of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was banned from running for the Knesset on grounds of racist incitement

Eli Yishai and Rabbi Meir Mazuz (Yahad)