Likud primaries

Likud panel votes to expand Netanyahu’s control over party list, wartime primary alternative

Likud’s Constitution Committee backed sweeping changes granting Netanyahu eight reserved list slots and authority to replace primaries with a wartime selection committee.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Elections for the Likud Central Committee, in the south Tel Aviv district. November 25, 2025.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for Zionist leader Theodor Herzl at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 5, 2026.

Likud panel expands Netanyahu’s control over party list to reserve eight slots ahead of primaries

Netanyahu reportedly has held several meetings with Katz ahead of the vote, seeking to bridge disagreements over the primary system.

|ByKESHET NEEV
A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015

Let voters have a say in who they vote in to Knesset - opinion

The adoption of a ‘semi-open ballot’ in Israel enjoys broad support across the political spectrum, both among civil society organizations and among the members of Knesset and their parties. 

|ByOFER KENIG
The Likud Constitution Committee, headed by the Chairman of the Likud Central Committee, Chairman of the Constitution Committee, Minister Haim Katz, has now convened announcing that the date of the primaries will be held on: 4.8.2026

Likud postpones primaries to August amid debate over Netanyahu’s influence on party list

While no decision has been announced on allowing Netanyahu to control the first slots, the updated rules and procedures for the primaries are expected to be released on Thursday.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Netanyahu angry Likud ministers slow to back him

It would appear that in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eyes, those who are not with him are against him.

AUGUST 6, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tzachi Braverman, and Yisrael Katz at security cabinet meeting

Effort afoot to save freshmen Likud MK

30 Likud MKs will all be vying for just 15 slots.

AUGUST 1, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Likud ballots