After last-minute addition, Religious Zionism submits its final electoral slate

Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit is the last party to submit its candidate list today, ending the first of two days in which parties finalize and register their rosters for November’s Knesset election.

The party’s 47-member list is not yet public, but it combines representatives from three far-right parties. In addition to its two eponymous parties, the list added the anti-LGBT Noam earlier today in a last-minute deal orchestrated by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, placing its leader Avi Maoz in the 11th spot.

“For too many years the right, even though it ruled, it did not implement things,” says Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir, who takes the combined party’s second spot.

Ben Gvir says that the state needs to “back up” its soldiers, secure the streets, and promote a Jewish character. The firebrand MK has pushed controversial and at times racist positions, and has recently said he would support expelling Arabs who attack IDF soldiers.

The list includes a range of sitting MKs alongside newcomers Yitzhak Wasserlauf in the fifth spot, Almog Cohen in seventh, Amichai Eliyahu in ninth and Zvika Fogel in the 10th spot.