Otzma Yehudit

Likud, Netanyahu dropping in public eyes amid Iran war, contentious legislation - poll

This is Likud’s lowest figure since August 2025, when it received 21 seats in a Maariv poll. However, the coalition bloc maintained its strength from last week at 50 seats.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
A LIKUD supporter waves the party’s flag at a gathering, a show of grassroots loyalty which has long defined the movement, even as critics say its primaries have reshaped, and at times distorted, who rises within its ranks.
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024

Gov’t secretary says contentious haredi draft bill will pass, coalition soon to secure majority

Fuchs dismissed comments from Haskel, who objected to the bill, and from the group of coalition lawmakers who also objected to it.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day event, May 14, 2026; illustrative.

Over half of Israelis want PM Netanyahu to retire from politics, not run in Knesset election - poll

Poll: 55% of Israelis want Netanyahu to step down, as the coalition drops to 49 seats and the opposition strengthens to a majority.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
FORMER OTZMA YEHUDIT chair Michael Ben-Ari (left) and Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin (right) agree to run in a joint list ahead of elections, Wednesday, May 7, 2026.

Zehut party leader to run in elections on joint list with ex-Otzma Yehudit chair

The party said the alliance was born out of the understanding that the faith-based nationalist public in Israel currently "needs a strong political home." 

|ByKESHET NEEV

Israeli government officials slam chief rabbi's threat of haredi exodus

Yair Lapid lambasted the chief rabbi’s remarks on Sunday, stating, “Rabbi Yosef's words are an insult and disgrace to the IDF soldiers who risk their lives to defend the country."

MARCH 10, 2024BySAM HALPERN, ELIAV BREUER
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral procession of Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a senior judge in the Rabbinical Court, in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wasserman was killed in a terror attack earlier today. November 30, 2023.

'Hamas must come crawling and begging for a Gaza hostage deal' - interview

Rather than "award" the Palestinians a state, Hamas must come "crawling and begging" for a hostage deal after being completely defeated, Eliyahu said.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu speaks with The Jerusalem Post, February 2024

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen interrogated by Lahav 433

The interrogation against Cohen was under suspicion of assault, injuring another person in 2013 while he was serving as a police officer.

JANUARY 18, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen and right wing activists protest against a demonstration of Israeli-Arab students and activists against the Israeli army operation in Jenin, at the Tel Aviv University on January 30, 2023.

Yair Lapid offered, declined senior role in Israeli wartime government - report

"This shows how much pressure Netanyahu is under...we will not be the ones to save him," Lapid's faction wrote in reaction.

JANUARY 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli foreign minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid walks next to Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at the assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021.

Israel's Labor largely unaffected after Michaeli's resignation, election poll shows

While the votes for Labor almost doubled since last week, they would still not get enough to cross the threshold.

DECEMBER 15, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023.

Otzma Yehudit MK calls for control of Gaza Strip

Limor Son Har-Melech called for a settlement to build the Gaza Strip anew following the end of the war with Hamas.

NOVEMBER 24, 2023ByWALLA!
MK Limor Son Har-Melech

Government faces challenges in approving prisoner exchange deal

The proposed prisoner exchange deal has sparked opposition from the Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023ByTAL SHALEV/WALLA!
Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, October 23, 2023

Death penalty for terrorists harms Gaza hostages, families tell Knesset

"The debate on the death penalty for terrorists is a mental terror attack, a flammable that risks the lives of kidnapped children," said representative Noam Dan.

NOVEMBER 20, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Israelis whose family members are being held abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since Oct 7, react as they attend a National Security committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2023

Terrorist death penalty debate risks hostages, families charge Otzma Yehudit

"Stop talking about killing Arabs, start talking about saving Jews," the father of a hostage told MK Almog Cohen.

NOVEMBER 20, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
MK Almog Cohen seen shouting at hostages' families during a National Security Committee discussion on November 20, 2023

Amichai Eliyahu has got to go - editorial

It didn’t take long for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn Eliyahu’s remark and later announce that the minister would be suspended.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu attends a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023.