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Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
April 19, 2025, 10:28 pm
Prominent Haredi rabbi known for homophobic remarks, far-right politics dies at 80
Netanyahu and other coalition leaders eulogize Meir Mazuz, who blamed COVID-19 and Meron disaster on homosexuality, denounced Bennett-Lapid government members as ‘worse than Nazis’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Minister of Interior Affairs Eli Yishai at the Knesset in 2012 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
April 24, 2019, 12:32 am
Ex-Shas chief Yishai says PM promised him post for pulling out of election
Head of Yachad party, seen as taking away right-wing votes if it ran, claims Netanyahu assured him ministerial role if he withdrew and UTJ got at least 8 seats, according to report
By ToI Staff
Leader of the Yachad political party Eli Yishai speaks at the campaign opening event in Bnei Brak, March 12, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
March 27, 2019, 4:44 pm
Eli Yishai’s Yachad party drops out of election race, boosting right
Former Shas minister endorses United Torah Judaism; Union of Right-Wing Parties candidate hails Yishai’s ‘responsible step,’ courts his base
By Marissa Newman
Yachad party chairman Eli Yishai speaks at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 1:03 pm
Netanyahu reportedly tried to push Eli Yishai out of elections
But Yachad’s religious mentor is said to have rebuffed PM’s request that party drop out of campaign in order to avoid risk of loss of right-wing votes
By ToI Staff
The Jewish Home party votes on a pre-election alliance with Otzma Yehudit in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
February 22, 2019, 8:16 am
How the national religious camp moved from land for peace to union with radicals
The dispersal of Modern Orthodox Israelis into diverse political homes over the decades has left a progressively messianic minority in charge of their once dovish party
By Jacob Magid
Right-wing activists Michael Ben Ari (center), attorney Itamar Ben Gvir (left), and Bentzi Gopstein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 10:49 am
Extremist Otzma Yehudit announces unity pact with Jewish Home
With limited bargaining chips, far-right faction, composed of disciples of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, agrees to slots 5 and 8 on national religious party’s slate
By Jacob Magid
Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)
February 19, 2019, 3:00 pm
Netanyahu calls Smotrich’s dad, upping pressure for far-right merger
PM also phones prominent national religious rabbis in continued effort to push Jewish Home to unite with extremist Otzma Yehudit and Yachad parties
By Jacob Magid
Betzalel Smotrich and Rafi Peretz are seen after agreeing to form a joint Jewish Home-National Union Knesset slate, February 14, 2019. (Courtesy)
February 18, 2019, 8:32 pm
Jewish Home rejects Netanyahu invite to discuss merger with far-right parties
Faction heads say they don’t take orders from PM, call on him to ‘set a personal example’ and team up with extremist Otzma Yehudit
By Alexander Fulbright
Election poster created by supporters of Yachad Party leader Eli Yishai showing him with a slogan that says 'So that there won't be a child with a father and a father.' (Twitter)
February 13, 2019, 11:16 pm
Yachad party’s Eli Yishai fails to condemn anti-gay campaign by followers
Former Shas chief rejects furor over homophobic poster, apparently created by supporters, as ‘fake news,’ but appears to agree with its sentiments
By ToI Staff
Head of the Jewish Home Party Rabbi Rafi Peretz with new party member Yifat Erlich in Tel Aviv, February 13, 2019. (Flash90)
February 13, 2019, 11:55 am
Journalist Yifat Erlich joins Jewish Home party
Writer placed 3rd on religious right-wing faction’s slate; MK Moti Yogev accuses former leader Naftali Bennett of ‘raping’ the party, apologizes later
By Michael Bachner
Head of the National Union party MK Bezalel Smotrich, speaks during an event of the Movement for the Quality of Government, in Modi'in, February 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 6:02 pm
Far-right parties heading for merger, National Union leader says
Bezalel Smotrich says Jewish Home, Otzma Yehudit, Yachad and his own party can’t afford to be divided; accuses Bennett of leaving religious Zionist camp
By Stuart Winer
Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 5:37 am
Netanyahu: I won’t sit in coalition with Gantz, will form right-wing government
Israel Resilience responds: ‘We will establish a Zionist government of hope and unity that will replace Netanyahu’; PM calls on the right to unite to prevent left-wing victory
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Counting ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, March 18, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 16, 2018, 5:12 pm
PM seeking to lower electoral threshold, after raising it before last election
Move could help Netanyahu cobble together government following the next national ballot and prevent right-wing votes from being wasted
By Raoul Wootliff
Jerusalem City Council member Aryeh King. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 7, 2018, 10:08 pm
New right-wing, ultra-Orthodox list enters Jerusalem mayoral race
‘United’ faction, headed by settlement activist Aryeh King, seeks to garner the Haredi and national religious vote in October’s municipal elections
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara and Likud lawmakers attend a rally in support of the premier in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 28, 2017, 10:44 pm
Poll: Likud is top party despite PM probes, but could struggle to form coalition
TV survey says longtime kingmaker Shas would fail to clear vote threshold, while centrist Yesh Atid would finish 2nd with 20 seats
By Alexander Fulbright
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