Likud primaries

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

Senior Likud officials have urged Netanyahu to consider reserving a spot for Haddad on the Likud list in order to prevent him from joining Winter and creating another force to Likud's right.

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Voters casting ballots in Israel's 25th Knesset election
Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister's son, is surrounded by his father's supporters at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, in 2020.

Netanyahu may reserve a Likud spot for son Yair, former prime minister's spox. Hefetz predicts

Nir Hefetz predicted Netanyahu could reserve a Likud slot for Yair, while arguing the party's new slate will do little to attract undecided voters.

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MK Tally Gotliv attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on, June 15, 2026.

'I should be justice minister': Tally Gotliv blames party machinery after Likud primary slide

Later, she called on Netanyahu to intervene in the composition of the party list, criticizing the lack of women on the primary list.

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Yoseph Haddad, an Arab-Israeli advocacy activist and CEO of the Together Vouch for Each Other association at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2024.

Likud officials push Netanyahu to reserve spot for Yoseph Haddad amid Ofer Winter party concerns

Likud officials fear that a new right-wing party led by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter could split the bloc’s vote, particularly if it fails to cross the electoral threshold.

|ByANNA BARSKY

War against new Likudniks spreads to US

The party has embarked on a series of steps against the so-called New Likudniks, a group of centrists who want the party to become less extreme.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Likud supporters celebrate at party headquarters on Election Day

Likud stops membership drive due to 'infiltrators'

Fearing "Trojan horses" within the ranks of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling party, leaders temporarily halt online registration.

AUGUST 14, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during an appearance at a Likud faction meeting

Is Likud ready for the post-Netanyahu era?

The assumption all along has been that the Likud needs Netanyahu more than Netanyahu needs Likud. But is that really true?

AUGUST 8, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tzachi Braverman, and Yisrael Katz at security cabinet meeting

Netanyahu angry Likud ministers slow to back him

It would appear that in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eyes, those who are not with him are against him.

AUGUST 6, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tzachi Braverman, and Yisrael Katz at security cabinet meeting

Effort afoot to save freshmen Likud MK

30 Likud MKs will all be vying for just 15 slots.

AUGUST 1, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Likud ballots