Bayit Yehudi

Ayelet Shaked receives just 80,000 votes, throws support behind Netanyahu

Ayelet Shaked thanked her supporters for voting for her and expressed hope that a stable right-wing government would be formed by Netanyahu in the coming days.

 Ayelet Shaked, Interior Minister and head of the Jewish Home party casts her vote at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset Elections, on November 01, 2022.
 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at The Jerusalem Post's London conference on March 31, 2022.

Israel Elections: Ayelet Shaked fights on despite low polling numbers

 A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Israel Elections: Don't be pressured into changing your vote - opinion

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked (L) during a vote at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on December 21, 2016, during the state budget vote for 2017-2018.

If Netanyahu supports Shaked, right bloc could win 62 seats - poll


Top Israeli politicians take to social media, make fun of each other

From the Galon-Shaked debate on the best name for an album cover to the Likud's use of a sinkhole as a jab at political opponents, fun was had by all.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Israel Elections: Parties hand in Knesset lists before deadline

Israel's Religious Zionist Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich adds anti-LGBT MK Avi Maoz of the Noam Party to his list.

 Illustration from a polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021

Is the Shaked-Bennett era over? -analysis

The two stuck together through thick and thin for over a decade, but it seems that in the jungle that is Israeli politics, their roads have finally diverged.

 Yamina's Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked seen in the plenum hall of the Israeli parliament during the voting in the presidential elections, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021

Rabbi Druckman, senior rabbis endorse Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

Mainstream Rabbi Druckman backs Religious Zionist Party, a union of the hardline National Union and ultra-nationalist, Kahanist Otzma Yehudit, but excludes the religious-Zionist party Bayit Yehudi

Rabbi Haim Druckman 370

Israel elections: Progress reported toward merger on Right

Netanyahu set to reserve slots for Levy-Abecassis, Hirsch

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and MK Bezalel Smotrich

Bennett's Yamina party formally splits

Effort underway to unite religious Zionists without Bennett

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett is seen speaking during the vote to dissolve the Knesset, on December 2, 2020.

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe to head Bayit Yehudi

First woman ever to head a religious party * Smotrich invited her to discuss having their parties run together in the elections.

DEPUTY MAYOR Hagit Moshe worked in Jerusalem’s education administration for years before entering politics

Bayit Yehudi to hold leadership primaries, Netanyahu interferes

Yamina set to split on Tuesday

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Rafi Peretz leaving politics

National Union leader Bezalel Smotrich called upon Bayit Yehudi to merge with his party before it elects a new leader.

Rafi Peretz at the weekly cabinet meeting, March 2020.

Parties start membership drives

Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Rafi Peretz sent a letter to the party’s current members informing them of a “big membership drive of religious Zionists."

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Bayit Yehudi plotting to bring down leader Rafi Peretz

A meeting has been called by Bayit Yehudi MK Moti Yogev and former MK and deputy defense minister Eli Ben-Dahan for party members to discuss ways to “renew and rehabilitate” Bayit Yehudi.

Israel's Education minister Rafi Peretz