Excluded from far-right merger, ultra-conservative Noam party to run independently

28 August 2022, 7:35 pm

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Noam party chairman Avi Maoz. (Noam Party)

MK Avi Maoz, announces that his ultra-conservative, anti-LGBT Noam faction will run as a separate party in the upcoming November 1 election, after it was left out of the merger between Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionism and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit.

Maoz, whose faction was allied with both factions in the previous vote, says that after a meeting, Noam’s management decided to run independently — despite the high likelihood of it failing to pass the electoral threshold — citing “unequivocal calls from our many supporters.”

“Noam must be in the next Knesset,” Maoz says in a statement. “It’s inconceivable for the Jewish identity to be sent to the margins and to an unrealistic spot. Good luck to us all.”