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


PM offered ex-Shas leader Yishai ministry if he runs in Bayit Yehudi

Yishai has yet to respond to the offer, and sought the advice of his Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a leading Sephardic haredi rabbi.

Eli Yishai

Bayit Yehudi, Likud spar over far-right party Otzma

Israel's right-wing parties argue over who should unite with whom to prevent a left-wing victory.

Baruch Marzel

Bayit Yehudi and National Union agree to run together in elections

The parties will alternate seats on the list, with Bayit Yehudi getting the odd numbers and National Union the even.

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

Senior Bayit Yehudi MK accuses Naftali Bennett of ‘raping’ party

Motti Yogev, second on the party's list, said Bennett "raped" the party by leaving to start his New Right party.

Naftali Bennett (L) and Motti Yogev (R)

Will Bayit Yehudi be the party of the rabbis?

Under former party leader Naftali Bennett, rabbinical influence over Bayit Yehudi waned to a certain extent, and he pushed back against it.

Rabbi Rafi Peretz, the recently elected chairman of the Bayit Yehudi party

National-religious rabbis ‘demands’ two major parties to run together

Prime Minister calls for all right-wing religious parties to unite to keep right-wing bloc in government, including far-right Otzmah Yehudit party.

Rabbis hats are silhouetted against the sky as they gather to pose for a group photo in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., November 4, 2018.

National Union-Bayit Yehudi negotiations at 'dead end’

Bayit Yehudi prepared to run alone despite polls showing party below electoral threshold; Peretz says Bayit Yehudi willing to sit in Gantz-led government

National Union leader MK Betzalel Smotrich

Rabbi Lior to right-wing leaders: If attempts at unity fail, run alone

Bayit Yehudi ran together with National Union in three of the last four elections.

Rabbi Dov Lior

Former IDF chief rabbi Rafi Peretz elected to lead Bayit Yehudi

Peretz is married and the father of 12 children. He lived in Gush Katif in Gaza before the disengagement, and currently lives in Neveh, in the Negev, with other Gaza evacuees.

Rafi Peretz

Bayit Yehudi officially calls primaries off amid internal disputes

The language of the ads spoke of religious Zionists generally, allowing the National Union’s campaign to begin while clearly leaving an opening for an expected merger with Bayit Yehudi

Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich hopes to use his powers of persuasion, as in this November 2015 photo, to sell a new right-wing diplomatic plan.