Religious Zionists

Israel Election 2026: The parties, blocs and battles that will shape Israel's future - explainer

Israel’s first post-October 7 election brings shifting alliances, new political faces and an uncertain path to power

Results of a Maariv poll measuring how many seats each party would receive in the October 2026 Knesset elections, results shared on August 28, 2026.
Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich attends the Religious Zionism party primaries ahead of the upcoming Israeli general elections, in Jerusalem, July 26, 2026.

Smotrich backs Givati soldiers jailed after refusing APC with female paramedic

 A plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on March 19, 2025.

Winter, Smotrich cross electoral threshold at expense of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Kan poll shows

Voters casting ballots in Israel's 25th Knesset election

Likud fears new right-wing parties, alliances could split vote below electoral threshold - analysis


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Why are so many of Israel's fallen soldiers from religious Zionist camp? - editorial

Of the 11 IDF soldiers who fell in Gaza from Monday through Wednesday, eight came from the religious Zionist camp.

 An Israeli soldier with a prayer shawl seen during a morning prayer near his tank near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 25, 2023

Remembering David Ellenson, a Reform rabbi and Religious Zionist - opinion

The Reform world and the entire Jewish world are robbed ideologically because our friend, teacher, mentor, trailblazer, Rabbi David Ellenson, won’t be with us to make the old-new paradigms we need.

 RABBI DAVID ELLENSON understood how central Israel is to modern Jewish identity, says the writer.

Religious Zionist rabbis, anti-judicial reform protest leaders meet to talk unity

National Unity Party MK Matan Kahana initiated and organized the meeting between religious Zionist leaders and protest leaders.

 Religious Zionist rabbis meet with Brothers in Arms activists. December 3, 2023

'Frayed': Is religious Zionism splitting apart? - review

Frayed is a serious and thought-provoking examination of issues of deep concern to many Israelis and can help understand the ongoing tension between the secular and the religious.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett informs the country that he will not seek reelection, at a 2022 press conference at the Knesset.

When solidarity was lost on the most important day of the Jewish year - opinion

The hurt felt by the broad section of the Israeli public that is moderately traditional may have serious consequences for the struggle against the government’s judicial overhaul.

 WE WOULD all have benefited from a different approach that left Yom Kippur outside the struggle, says the writer.

'They don't recognize our right to exist': Protesters attack religious Zionist rabbi

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein was attacked by protesters in Tel Aviv, sparking criticism from multiple politicians, including some who compared it to Kristallnacht.

 Rabbi Yigal Levinstein is seen being escorted by police as he is surrounded by protesters, in Tel Aviv, on September 19, 2023.

There is more than one religious Zionism - opinion

The implication that The Religious Zionist Party represents all religious Zionists, as well as religious Zionism, is patently untrue. Rather, they hijacked it.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses a pre-Rosh Hashanah party event, in Jerusalem last week.

Smotrich to Hayut: 'You dare to invalidate a Basic Law, the responsibility is yours'

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the right-wing pro-judicial reform demonstration in Jerusalem on Thursday night.

 Finance Minster Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a pro-reform rally in Jerusalem, September 7, 2023.

Racism has infested Israel's religious Zionists and must be fought - opinion

In no uncertain terms, it must be demonstrated to the Israeli public at home and to those who look at us from the outside that racism has no place among us.

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media at the Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem on, January 28, 2023.