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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.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for Zionist leader Theodor Herzl at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 5, 2026.
A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protester argues with a police officer outside the Jerusalem IDF recruitment center, April 12, 2026.

Almost half of Israelis support tougher sanctions, pressure to promote haredi conscription - poll

Approximately 31% support conscription only in agreement with Haredi leadership, and 11% believe that efforts to draft Haredi men are futile and should stop.

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, May 19, 2026.

Likud weighs reserving slot for Smotrich as RZP risks falling below electoral threshold

Senior Likud figures are discussing whether bringing Bezalel Smotrich onto the party's slate could help preserve religious-Zionist support if his party struggles to clear the electoral threshold.

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An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

Kallner, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told 103FM that he does not think arresting yeshiva students is 'the right way.'

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Likud begins process to replace Knesset speaker

Breakthrough in negotiations between the Likud and the Religious Zionist Party announced.

NOVEMBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks next to Head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with the opposition parties at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on June 28, 2021.

Netanyahu gives crash course in Machiavellian politics - analysis

Smotrich is now on the receiving end of what the Center-Left has called the "poison machine" – and, despite his experience, he is still taken aback.

NOVEMBER 24, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
MK BENJAMIN NETANYAHU appears at his book launch event in Jerusalem on Monday

Coalition talks stalled as factions quarrel in new Knesset

Netanyahu met with Arye Deri and Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday, with Deri continuing to insist on the Finance Ministry.

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE, SHIRA SILKOFF
Far-right Israeli lawmakers Itamar Ben Gvir, center, and Bezalel Smotrich, right, attend the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament, at the Knesset, or parliament, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022.

Ben-Gvir, Smotrich will coordinate negotiations for gov't positions

Remaining a united bloc will allow Smotrich to negotiate for the top cabinet positions, namely defense, justice, or finance minister.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Then-head of the National Union party MK Betzalel Smotrich and attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir attend Otzma Yehudit party's election campaign event in Bat Yam on April 06, 2019.

Netanyahu uses empty voting centers photos from 2019 to encourage voting

The message shared by the Likud leader stated that right-wing voting percentages were down used photos from the 2019 elections to illustrate his point.

NOVEMBER 1, 2022BySHIRA SILKOFF
RIGHT: Photo from the September 2019 elections shared by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. LEFT: The same image is shared again by Netanyahu, only this time he claimed it to be from November 2022.

Israel Elections: Upcoming vote is crucial to save the courts from Likud - opinion

The Likud aim is authority without limits and power without limitations. Such governance will endanger the foundations of our young republic and shall strip us from the defenses of our liberties.

OCTOBER 21, 2022ByZE'EV B. BEGIN
THE WRITER speaks at a New Hope election campaign event in Rishon Lezion, last year.

Ben-Gvir is a danger to Israel and he is what the election is about - comment

He is a threat to the future of Israel’s fragile democratic character, and if he gets his way – and Netanyahu gets his 61 seats – these two men will have the ability to demolish the country.

OCTOBER 18, 2022ByYAAKOV KATZ
MK Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party surrouned visits in Beit Orot, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur, October 13, 2022.

Netanyahu accused of using Likud party resources to promote new book

Printouts were attached to the complaint that indicated the use of the party's platforms for advertising a private book published by Netanyahu.

OCTOBER 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Leader of the Opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv on October 3, 2022.

Elections 2022: Amichai Chikli disqualified from running on Likud list

Amichai Chikli's candidacy was barred after MK Gaby Lasky petitioned the Central Election Committee, claiming that he did not resign early enough to be allowed to run on a different list.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
AMICHAI CHIKLI: Chose the long short path.

Netanyahu greeted with insults, jeers on visit to B'nei Brak

Locals boo'd Netanyahu and chanted insults, calling him a heretic in both modern Hebrew (kofer) and mishnaic Hebrew (apicorus).

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU attends a conference in Jerusalem, last week.