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A general view shows the plenum at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, May 29, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Ronen Zvulun. JNS.org– For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman was elected this week to head a religious party running for the Knesset, when Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe emerged victorious in the Jewish Home Party (Habayit Hayehudi) primary on Tuesday. Moshe defeated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett’s confidant, Nir Orbach, in a race held in the 960-member a...

Israel By Yoni Weiss YERUSHALAYIM - MK Betzalel Smotrich. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) The Jewish Home party on Tuesday night for the first time selected a woman as its leader, choosing Yerushalayim Deputy Mayor Chagit Moshe to head the religious Zionist party. The development seemed set to secure an alliance between Jewish Home and two other right-wing parties that would back Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his bid to be reelected. Moshe secured victory with 472 votes of the party’s ce...

Hagit Moshe, a Jerusalem deputy mayor, pleads for religious Zionist unity; 2 other right-wing parties echo her call as polls indicate that together they could win 4 Knesset seats

Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israels senior analyst. Yamina leader Naftali Bennett at a protest against the states intention to close the Hilla Project, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The election campaign is now in its least interesting phase, and, arguably, its most important. Sixty-four days out from election day, this is the point when parties disassemble and reassemble as Knesset hopefuls jockey for position in search of a political vehicl...

Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israels political correspondent. Naftali Bennett (R) and Bezalel Smotrich of the right-wing Yamina party hold a press conference in Jerusalem on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The right-wing Yamina party confirmed Monday night that it will split ahead of the upcoming March elections, with National Union chair Bezalel Smotrich pulling his faction out of the union to run on his own. “We are going our separate ways,” Smotrich told Channel 12 news. He ...

Yamina leaders Naftali Bennett and Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset plenum, November 13, 2017. Senior officials in the Yamina party are suggesting that the talks between Chairman Naftali Bennett and Bezalel Smotrich regarding a joint run have reached a dead end and are currently on the verge of exploding, Reshet Bet radio reported Tuesday morning. Apart from the debate over whose people get the higher slots on the list, there exists a significant gap between Bennett and Smutrich with regard to t...