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’s future unclear after internal proposal rejection

Bayit Yehudi insiders say Orbach is still hesitant to allow primaries to take place, because they would incur significant costs and the party is millions of shekels in debt.

Nir Orbach

Middle Israel: The gospel according to Naftali Bennett

Bennett’s resume has no equivalents of building Israel’s military industries, plotting its nuclear program, or defeating hyperinflation, as Peres’s did.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a reception hosted by the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem ahead of the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018

Bayit Yehudi to vote on canceling primaries after Bennett, Shaked split

The vote on the new Bayit Yehudi leader was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed to Thursday due to possible snow in the Jerusalem area.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Knesset Member Nissan Slomiansky debate in a ministerial committee meeting on Monday, June 25, 2018

Smotrich vs. Ariel: National Union to hold leadership vote

Smotrich has his own plans to try to lead the bloc.

 Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel and Bezalel Smotrich

Caroline Glick joins Hayemin Hehadash 'dream team'

Glick has been a columnist for 'The Jerusalem Post' since 2002, and in recent years began writing for Maariv and American far-right website Breitbart.

Caroline Glick speaks at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference, April 29, 2018

Bayit Yehudi seeks new leaders after breakaway

An online poll of the religious-Zionist news site Srugim found on Sunday that 60% of its readers prefer Smotrich, followed by Ben-Dahan with 15%, and Yogev with 9%. Ariel received 6% of the vote.

Bezalel Smotrich

Druckman says National Religious should vote for Bayit Yehudi, not Bennett

“Bennett and Shaked have established a general, not a religious party,” Rabbi Haim Druckman told 'The Jerusalem Post.'

Rabbi Haim Druckman studying with Simcha Goldin, father of slain soldier Hadar Goldin at a Torah study event in December, 2018, held by the Union of Hesder Yeshivas

Bennett, Shaked and Moalem-Refaeli officially break away from Bayit Yehudi

The trio made up more than a third of the eight-seat faction, allowing them to take government funding for the next election with them.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked enter the room before delivering their statements in Tel Aviv, Israel December 29, 2018

National Union holds emergency meeting after Bennett, Shaked exit

"We will continue to lead [the party] to great achievements and properly represent the national-religious public."

National Union members with Rabbi Druckman, Saturday December 29 2018

Smotrich challenging Ariel for National Union head

Bayit Yehudi will choose its Knesset candidates in a primary among its 30,000 members the first week of February.

Bezalel Smotrich