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Most countries only have a small handful of parties who make it into the legislature, and usually only two who could conceivably end up controlling the executive. This time around, Israel has four parties who could conceivably end up with a ruling coalition, 19 parties being polled for Knesset seats, nine additional parties of note who have not yet announced their intentions for the election, and numerous subfactions within those parties. Today, I am going to clear the confusion. In this article I will be going through each party, their history, their ideology, their platform, their internal factions, and their election prospects. Here we go:
Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel s 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 said that Yamina head Naftali Bennett was focused on the economy, while he was set on “uniting religious Zionism, and chiefly to be the ideological right-wing voice in the Knesset.”