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Age 76; Israel's longest-serving prime minister, leading Likud since 2005 across six governments.

• Architect of the 2020 Abraham Accords, normalizing relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan
• Long-time champion of free-market reforms credited with helping build Israel's 'Startup Nation' tech economy
• Secured US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the embassy relocation in 2018
• Longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, having led the country across six governments
• Ordered the June 2025 Twelve-Day War and the February 2026 joint US-Israeli strikes that crippled Iran's nuclear program, fulfilling a decades-long warning about the regime's weapons ambitions

Age 57; Jerusalem-born lawyer and longtime Netanyahu ally; architect of the 2023 judicial reform package aimed at rebalancing Israel's branches of government.

• Entered the Knesset in 2009 after serving as Vice Chairman of the Israel Bar Association (2003-05)
• Served as Tourism Minister (2015-19) and Knesset Speaker (2020-21) before returning to cabinet
• Architect of Israel's 2023 judicial reform package, a long-term project rooted in more than two decades of his writings warning against judicial overreach
• Long-time advocate of restoring democratic balance by reforming Supreme Court powers and the judicial selection process
• Currently the senior minister managing five ministerial portfolios, holding the line for the coalition while Shas and UTJ ministers remain outside the government over the yeshiva-student conscription dispute

Age 50; Beersheba-born lawyer of Moroccan-Jewish heritage and former IDF officer and Shin Bet operative; Israel's first openly gay cabinet minister and Knesset Speaker.

• Long-time Netanyahu loyalist who runs the Knesset firmly in line with the coalition's agenda
• Backed the 2023 judicial reform package as a needed rebalancing between the branches of government
• Tied with Eli Cohen as top vote-getter in Likud's May 2026 Eilat 'Likudiada' activists' poll, marking him as a leading next-generation Likud figure
• Advanced bills tightening rules on disruptive protests and reining in the Attorney General's office
• In December 2025 voted in favor of a civil marriage framework bill, drawing criticism from Haredi coalition partners

Age 70; veteran Likud politician in the Knesset since 1998; appointed Defense Minister in November 2024 and has overseen Israel's campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Iran in 2026.

• One of Likud's longest-serving MKs, continuously in the Knesset since 1998
• Has held a wide range of senior portfolios across his career, including Foreign Affairs (twice), Finance, Energy, Transportation, Intelligence, and Agriculture
• As Transportation Minister, championed major infrastructure projects including the Tel Aviv light rail and intercity high-speed rail to Jerusalem
• Long-standing hawk on Iran; as Defense Minister has framed Israel's 2026 strikes as a legitimate response to the regime's nuclear and terror threats
• Leading the IDF's continued security presence in southern Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza to protect Israeli communities, and pushing for full Hezbollah disarmament
• Frequently mentioned as a future Likud leadership contender

Age 66; tech entrepreneur (BRM Technologies, early Check Point investor) and former two-term mayor of Jerusalem; entered the Knesset in 2019.

• Tech-industry founder and one of Israel's most successful self-made entrepreneurs before entering politics
• Served two terms as mayor of a united Jerusalem (2008-2018), credited with revitalizing the capital and expanding its tech, tourism, and cultural sectors
• Entered the Knesset in 2019 as a senior figure in Likud
• Pro-business voice within Likud, championing deregulation, lower tariffs, and Israel's emergence as a global economic power
• Has predicted Israel's total trade can grow from roughly $150 billion to $1 trillion within 15-20 years
• Long viewed as a leading potential successor to Netanyahu within Likud

Age 73; decorated Sayeret Matkal veteran and former Shin Bet director (2000-2005) who led the agency to victory over the suicide-bombing campaign of the Second Intifada; senior Likud security voice.

• Directed the Shin Bet 2000-2005, presiding over the dismantling of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror networks during the Second Intifada
• Entered politics with Kadima in 2006; served as Minister of Public Security (2006-09) and briefly as Minister of Home Front Defense (2012-13)
• Joined Likud in 2012 and has been a senior Likud security voice ever since
• Currently Minister of Agriculture and Food Security; has defended Israeli farmers against sweeping dairy-import reforms pushed by the Finance Ministry
• Sits on the inner security cabinet and was floated in early 2025 as a candidate to head the National Security Ministry and the Shin Bet

Age 44; born in Ramat Gan to a religious Tunisian-Jewish family as the eldest of seventeen siblings, raised in Moshav Zimrat in the Gaza envelope; learned at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva and served in the religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion; PhD in industrial engineering and management from Ben-Gurion University.

• Religious-Zionist scholar and industrial-engineering professional from the Gaza envelope with a PhD from Ben-Gurion University
• Entered the Knesset with Likud in 2019 and has served as Minister of Communications since December 2022
• Accelerated Israel's 5G rollout, expanded cellular coverage to Judea and Samaria and peripheral communities, and opened the market to new operators to lower consumer costs
• Approved Starlink satellite broadband for Israeli local authorities and emergency use, strengthening national resilience
• Champion of media pluralism, advancing reforms to break up legacy public-broadcasting monopolies and restore diversity of opinion in Israeli media

Age 66; Morocco-born lawyer and former deputy mayor of Rishon LeZion; veteran Likud MK and ex-coalition whip who maintains his innocence in an ongoing bribery, fraud and money-laundering trial.

• Took the stand for the first time in September 2025, categorically denying all bribery and corruption charges
• Sometimes breaks with coalition on judicial overhaul scope, urging a more gradual approach
• Chairs the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee
• Background in municipal politics in Rishon LeZion since 1988
• Indicted in July 2021 on seven counts including allegedly taking ~NIS 715,000 in bribes

Age 67; Soviet-born refusenik who spent 3 years in a Siberian gulag for teaching Hebrew underground; freed May 1987, made aliyah and settled in Alon Shvut, later serving as Knesset Speaker 2013-2020.

• Drafted a conscription bill with real enforcement to share the wartime service burden, while keeping yeshiva learning tracks for serious students
• Ousted from FAD Committee chair July 2025 after refusing to advance a sweeping Haredi exemption bill he viewed as insufficient for IDF needs
• Removed from the FAD Committee entirely October 2025 after voting in favor of applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, against Likud's abstention line
• Argues a credible draft framework is essential to sustain right-wing rule and IDF manpower during the multi-front war
• Long-standing champion of Soviet Jewry, aliyah, and Russian-speaking Israelis

Age 53; Lod-born religious-Zionist Likud activist who currently resides in Gedera; first-term MK from the 2022 election. He is the elder brother of Yair Revivo, who served as mayor of Lod.

• Appointed chair of the Knesset Ethics Committee in July 2025 after UTJ MK Moshe Roth vacated the post when his party left the coalition
• Previously chaired the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child until August 2025, when Keti Shitrit succeeded him
• Strong supporter of the judicial reform package and a reliable coalition vote in the Likud bench
• Campaigns on strengthening public security, deepening Jewish identity, and cutting bureaucracy to help small businesses
• Opposed the Haredi draft-exemption bill in its proposed form, warning it could not pass without relying on Arab-faction votes

Age 55; Jerusalem-born novelist and outspoken right-wing voice of Iranian-Jewish heritage; patriotically resigned as Public Diplomacy Minister on Oct 12, 2023 so wartime funds could go to higher-priority needs.

• Chairs special Knesset committee advancing Minister Karhi's media reform bill
• Stepped down as Public Diplomacy Minister days into the Oct 2023 war, saying 'the people of Israel need every shekel'
• Announced in May 2026 she will not seek reelection at term's end
• Acclaimed novelist (nominated for 2015 Sapir Prize) and fierce pro-Israel commentator before entering politics
• Strong advocate of decisive IDF operations to defeat Hamas and secure Israel's southern communities

Age 56; Likud MK with a law degree, born in Rishon LeZion to Libyan and Iraqi Jewish immigrants and now residing in Alonei Habashan in the Golan Heights; entered Knesset in December 2020 and re-elected in 2022; a leading voice for security-first, sovereignty-oriented policies.

• Advocates restoring full IDF security control of Gaza and renewing Jewish communities there
• Supports the death penalty for convicted terrorists
• Backs Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and continued settlement growth
• Promotes legislation to strengthen accountability for incitement and wartime sedition
• Outspoken wartime commentator frequently targeted by opposition censure motions

Age 70; Ofakim-born businessman of Moroccan heritage and decorated former IAF officer (10 years of service) with degrees from Ben-Gurion and Bar-Ilan universities; owns nursing-home and real-estate companies; first-term Likud MK whose brother Yitzhak serves as mayor of Ofakim.

• Member of the Knesset Ethics Committee (joined July 2025)
• Champions the coalition's senior-civil-service appointments reform to restore elected-government authority over top bureaucratic posts
• Dedicated advocate for Negev periphery development and Ofakim's revitalization
• Loyal Likud coalition partner advancing the government's agenda
• Brings business, military, and periphery-leadership experience to the Knesset

Age 50; combative lawyer and Netanyahu defender; entered Knesset 2022 after years as a right-wing TV commentator.

• Outspoken defender of Netanyahu and the judicial reform
• Pushes accountability investigations into Oct 7 intelligence failures, pointing at Shin Bet shortcomings
• Faced a 2025 indictment over a social-media post tied to an Oct 7-related controversy
• Granted parliamentary immunity by the Knesset in June 2025
• Joined the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in October 2025 after Edelstein's ouster

Age 53; Jerusalem-born attorney (LLB, Reichman University) and first-term Likud MK; tapped by PM Netanyahu in July 2025 to chair the Finance Committee and has since steered Israel's wartime fiscal policy.

• Has chaired the Knesset Finance Committee since July 2025, succeeding UTJ's Moshe Gafni
• Shepherded the 2026 state budget through committee, adding roughly NIS 32 billion to defense and raising the deficit ceiling to fund the war effort
• Advanced tax credits and war-compensation packages for IDF reservists, small businesses, and furloughed workers
• Supports trimming discretionary funding to politically activist NGOs and redirecting it toward security and frontline communities
• Backed the coalition's judicial reform agenda, including the bill to split the attorney-general's role
• Subject of a politically contested police investigation tied to his prior work as legal counsel for the Bnei Baruch-Kabbalah La'Am association, in which allegations relate to sexual misconduct and witness tampering; he denies all allegations and Likud has called the probe politically motivated
• Hawkish on security policy and supportive of robust IDF and intelligence operations

Age 61; former Israel Hayom editor-in-chief (2017-2022) and ex-ambassador to Mauritania (2004-2008); first-term Likud MK confirmed as FAD chair in August 2025.

• Replaced Edelstein as FAD chair to advance a balanced Haredi enlistment framework that respects Torah-study commitments while expanding national service
• Argues Israel must continue dismantling Hezbollah's remaining capabilities to secure the northern border
• Backs sustained military and diplomatic pressure on Iran's nuclear program, supporting Operation Rising Lion
• Co-chairs the Knesset Caucus for the Hostages and champions efforts to bring all hostages home
• Long-time Netanyahu ally and seasoned foreign-affairs voice from his Israel Hayom years

Age 53; former deputy director of the Police Internal Investigations Department at the Justice Ministry; first-term Likud MK since November 2022 in the 25th Knesset.

• Sponsored 2026 reform placing police internal investigations under Justice Ministry oversight to strengthen accountability
• Champions reforms restoring balance between elected officials and the Attorney General's office
• Backs requiring judicial and committee approval before opening criminal probes of senior officials, to curb politicized prosecutions
• Supports splitting the Attorney General into separate prosecutorial and advisory roles, in line with most Western democracies
• Brings insider expertise as former deputy director of Police Internal Investigations

Age 71; mechanical engineer with a master's in management and public policy from Tel Aviv University, former CEO of Netanya Municipality and deputy mayor under Miriam Fierberg; first-term MK in the 25th Knesset.

• Constructive Likud voice favoring broad consensus on major reforms
• Supports Trump's Gaza framework, insisting on full hostage return and demilitarization of Hamas before Phase 2
• Champions child welfare and protection legislation in the Knesset
• Advocates that Arab partner forces, not the IDF, take the lead in securing post-war Gaza
• Strong local-government record rooted in Netanya's civic life

Age 52; Gedera-born to Yemenite-Libyan parents; first woman to chair Israel's National Students' Association; MK on and off since 2003.

• First woman to chair Israel's National Students' Association, a milestone for Mizrahi women in public life
• MK since 2003; portfolios have included Senior Citizens, Social Equality, Environmental Protection, Intelligence, and Innovation/Science/Technology
• As Intelligence Minister during the October 7 war, helped coordinate Israel's strategic messaging and hostage-related diplomacy
• Championing Israel's first female astronaut and significantly expanding national space-tech investment via NASA cooperation
• Deepening Israel's deep-tech and AI partnerships with India and other strategic allies
• Long-standing Mizrahi voice within Likud, building her career around broadening Sephardic/Mizrahi representation in Israeli leadership

Age 46; Afula-born former advisor to Likud ministers Limor Livnat and Gilad Erdan; MK since 2019, currently serves as coalition whip and House Committee chair, central in managing the government's legislative agenda.

• Submitted May 2026 bill to dissolve the Knesset and call early elections, advanced unanimously 106-0 on first reading June 1, 2026
• Briefly chaired the Finance Committee in July 2025 after Gafni's resignation, before Milwidsky took over so Katz could return to his House Committee post
• Steers coalition votes on the judicial reform package aimed at rebalancing Israel's branches of government
• Championed expanded Norwegian Law to broaden the Likud bench and bring fresh voices into the Knesset
• Sits on the judicial-ombudsman selection panel as a Knesset representative

Age 40; south Tel Aviv grassroots activist who championed neighborhood residents affected by illegal African migration; first elected to Knesset in 2019.

• Backs robust enforcement of Israel's immigration laws against illegal infiltrators
• Vocal advocate for the Netanyahu government on US speaking tours
• Police recommended in 2026 that she stand trial over alleged ministry job-fixing; she denies wrongdoing
• Built political base championing south Tel Aviv working-class residents
• Promotes welfare initiatives for women in distress and victims of human trafficking

Age 40; Montreal-born, McGill-trained lawyer and former Foreign Ministry legal adviser; entered Knesset January 2023 and has become a leading English-language voice for Likud abroad.

• Co-authored landmark law shutting UNRWA operations in Israel and Jerusalem
• Frames judicial reform as restoring democratic majority rule
• Prominent English-language Likud spokesperson defending Israel internationally
• Champions deeper US-Israel ties and Diaspora engagement
• In 2026 broke with Haredi coalition partners to back equal IDF service while respecting Torah study
• Publicly rebuked Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens from the Knesset podium for anti-Israel rhetoric

Age 45; Likud MK who served as a Golani Brigade combat medic and became religious during his IDF service; founded Hazon Leumi (2013), a Zionist leadership center training the next generation in Jewish-national values; current Knesset tenure began 2023 after earlier terms in 2019 and 2020-2021.

• Backs Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
• Resolute on confronting Iran's terror axis and Hezbollah
• Signed April 2026 letter urging full IDF control up to the Litani to secure the North
• Champions Jewish-Zionist identity education in public schools
• Founded Hazon Leumi to cultivate Zionist leadership

Age 66; Lod-born, of Tunisian-Jewish (Djerba) heritage; longtime Israel Aerospace Industries workers' union official and former chief of staff to Haim Katz at the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry; first entered Knesset in 2019, returned in January 2023 under the Norwegian Law replacing Idit Silman.

• Loyal Haim Katz ally; he is lobbying to keep her on Likud's slate
• Reliable coalition vote on judicial reform and budget legislation
• Served as chair of the Foreign Workers Committee; focuses on labor, welfare, and constituency issues
• Faces an uphill battle in any open Likud primary, which is why allies favor a Netanyahu-curated slate
• Keeps a low public profile, preferring quiet constituency and committee work

Age 55; Haifa-born, Mercaz HaRav yeshiva-educated Orthodox Jew, father of six, living in Jerusalem; IDF 7th Armored Brigade veteran; co-founded the Jewish Statesmanship Center with Assaf Malakh to cultivate Jewish leadership; entered Knesset January 2023 replacing Amichai Chikli; served previously 2020-2021.

• Principled independent voice within Likud on security and judicial matters
• Removed from Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in May 2025 after voting against extending emergency reservist call-ups, saying he could not approve more sacrifice without a strategy for complete victory and the return of all hostages
• Won 40% in Jerusalem Likud Central Committee elections (November 2025) leading the party's liberal faction
• Has advanced bills to reform Israel's military and intelligence establishment, including a Prime Minister's Office second-opinion unit
• Warns that Israel and the West face a common threat from radical Islam, comparing the ideology to Nazi Germany

Age 58; Ethiopian-born journalist who made aliyah via Operation Moses in 1984 at 16, trailblazing former director of Kol Yisrael's Reshet Aleph public radio (first woman and first Ethiopian in the role).

• Acting chair of the Knesset Health Committee, pushing major investment in obesity prevention and health equity
• Leading voice for the Ethiopian-Israeli community in Knesset and champion of higher education for Ethiopian olim
• Pushed government response to missing girl Haymanut Kasau case
• Loyal Likud MK aligned with the governing coalition's national and security agenda
• Entered Knesset in February 2023 under the Norwegian Law replacing Ofir Akunis
• Long-standing Likud activist in Jerusalem

Age 51; son of Iranian-born immigrants; Bar-Ilan-trained political scientist; entered Knesset February 2023 replacing Eli Cohen; elevated to committee chair January 2026.

• Champions Jewish return and renewed Israeli communities in Gaza as a security imperative
• Sponsored legislation to discipline IDF and security officers who publicly encourage refusal to serve
• Co-led effort to expel an Arab MK who downplayed Hamas's October 7 atrocities
• Backs full Israeli sovereignty over the Gaza Strip to prevent another October 7
• Strong advocate for Jewish settlement growth across Judea and Samaria

Age 66; Casablanca-born, immigrated to Israel as an infant in 1962; former chief of staff to the Beit Shemesh mayor for 15 years (1993-2008); first served as MK in the 21st Knesset (2019), returned in February 2023 under the Norwegian Law replacing Minister Miri Regev.

• Filmed her vote in the State Comptroller election to demonstrate coalition discipline, helping elect Michael Rabello
• Reliable coalition vote backing the government's judicial reform agenda
• Strong supporter of the religious-Zionist educational stream and its contribution to Israeli society
• Active on women's status and child welfare legislation, now leading the Knesset's child-rights agenda
• Public supporter of the Zionist campus advocacy group Im Tirtzu

Age 36; yeshiva-educated, served in IDF Artillery Corps and Ground Forces Budget Division; former Big Brother contestant (2018); entered Knesset March 2023 as one of Likud's youngest members.

• Co-organized Knesset Sovereignty Conference pressing for Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
• Member of the pro-sovereignty Knesset Land of Israel Caucus
• Argues that applying sovereignty over the historical Jewish homeland is a matter of justice post-October 7
• Sits on Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, backs opening Israel's markets to greater competition
• Social-media-savvy outreach to younger Likud voters

Likud MK and Moshav Goren (Western Galilee) agriculturist near the Lebanese border who was evacuated from his home during the Hezbollah war that followed Oct 7, 2023; entered Knesset March 2023 replacing Yoav Kisch under the Norwegian Law, representing kibbutzim and regional councils.

• Calls for a decisive new round against the Iranian regime to 'cut the head of the snake' and end its threat to Israel
• Joined nine fellow Likud MKs at the 2024 'Preparing to Resettle Gaza' conference advancing Jewish return to the Strip
• Proposed that the PM's wife Sara Netanyahu light an Independence Day torch
• Champions northern-front evacuee compensation and closing regional gaps exposed by the war
• Placed 8th in Likud's May 2026 Eilat 'Likudiada' conference straw poll

Age 52; Judea and Samaria community activist holding Likud's reserved Yesha slot; in and out of Knesset since 2023, currently sitting since July 2024.

• Led motion to expel Hadash MK Ayman Odeh after Odeh equated freed Israeli hostages with released Palestinian terrorists (failed 73-15, needed 90)
• Bullish on Haredi conscription bill passing the Knesset
• Pushes Israeli curriculum reform to replace PA incitement materials in East Jerusalem Arab schools
• Sponsored bill to regulate top officials' pay, capping Supreme Court justices who out-earn the PM
• Principled settler voice; backs applying Israeli sovereignty across Judea and Samaria

Age 52; Druze from Yarka in the Galilee, longtime Likud activist on party's central committee since 2001; entered Knesset January 2025 under Norwegian Law replacing Gallant.

• Only Druze MK in the governing coalition, embodying Israel's blood-covenant with the Druze community
• Crossed into Syria in July 2025 to protect Israeli Druze and aid persecuted Syrian Druze brethren
• Submitted bill granting permanent residency to Syrian Druze seeking integration into Israel
• Voted for Israel's death penalty for terrorists law to strengthen deterrence
• Champions Druze and Circassian community integration and IDF service
• Former deputy head of Likud's youth movement, backs the coalition's reform agenda

Religious-Zionist settler activist and lawyer based in Kedumim; leads the Religious Zionist Party.

• Religious-Zionist settler activist; co-founded the Regavim NGO in 2006 focused on enforcing Israeli land law and protecting state lands in Judea and Samaria from illegal construction
• Entered the Knesset in 2015 with the Jewish Home / Tkuma alliance; took over Tkuma in 2019 and rebranded it the Religious Zionist Party in 2021
• As Finance Minister has steered Israel's economy through the wartime period, funding the largest defense buildup since the founding generation while preserving the country's investment-grade credit ratings
• Champion of the religious-Zionist settler movement; has overseen the most significant expansion of Jewish community construction in Judea and Samaria in years
• Long-time advocate of applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and reforming the judicial system

Decorated former IDF major from the Haruv reconnaissance battalion who was critically wounded defending Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (1996); served as Tkuma's secretary-general before entering the Knesset in 2019 and joining the cabinet in December 2022.

• Former IDF major in the Haruv reconnaissance battalion; gravely wounded in the 1996 battle at Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) and recognized as a disabled IDF veteran with a citation for bravery and operational excellence
• Served as secretary-general of the Tkuma (Religious Zionist) party from 2014 before entering the Knesset in 2019
• As Minister of Aliyah and Integration, leading the 'Aliyat HaTekuma' emergency plan targeting 30,000 new olim in 2026 and a five-year income-tax exemption for immigrants, with expanded outreach to communities facing rising antisemitism in France, the UK, Australia, and North America
• A proud religious-Zionist voice committed to the Jewish people's historic right to Eretz Yisrael and to strengthening the settler movement and Torah-rooted communities
• Champions development of Israel's Galilee, Negev, and other peripheral regions, drawing on his prior work in the Ministry for the Development of the Periphery

Veteran leader of the Jewish community in Hebron, mother of eleven, and founder of the Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria, which defends the civil rights of Israelis living in the heartland of biblical Israel.

• Long-time leader of the historic Jewish community in Hebron, the burial place of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs
• Founded the Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria to defend the civil rights of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria
• First entered the Knesset in 2013 with the Jewish Home; returned in 2022 with Religious Zionism
• As Minister of Settlements and National Missions, has overseen a major strengthening of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, including legalization of long-standing communities and a significant expansion of the ministry's budget
• Advocates renewing Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and restoring democratic balance between the Knesset and the Supreme Court through judicial reform

Lawyer, Bar-Ilan and Northwestern/Tel Aviv-trained, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh alumnus who served as an IDF Combat Engineering Corps chaplain; founder of Meshilut (Movement for Governability and Democracy) and the parliamentary architect of the 2023 judicial reform.

• Judicial-reform scholar and author of books on the proper balance between Israel's elected Knesset and its unelected Supreme Court
• Founded Meshilut (Movement for Governability and Democracy) in 2013, the leading NGO defending separation of powers and the authority of Israel's elected branches against judicial overreach
• Entered the Knesset in 2021 with Religious Zionism and was reappointed chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, which has passed more than 90 laws under his leadership
• Parliamentary architect of the 2023 judicial reform, restoring democratic majority rule and reining in the reasonableness doctrine and the Supreme Court's veto over judicial appointments
• As co-chair of the Land of Israel Caucus, led the July 2024 Knesset resolution rejecting a Palestinian state and the July 2025 resolution calling for the application of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, both backed by two-thirds of MKs
• Long-time advocate of a Knesset override clause and reform of the judicial-selection process to restore democratic accountability

Bar-Ilan-trained lawyer from Givat Shmuel and former chair of Bat Ami, the national-service organization for religious-Zionist young women; mother of five and former deputy finance minister.

• Champions expansion of national service for religious-Zionist women
• Leads Knesset rehabilitation efforts for Oct. 7 survivors, bereaved families, and IDF reservists coping with PTSD
• Backs the coalition's judicial reform to rebalance Israel's branches of government
• Advocates for religious-Zionist communal institutions and Torah-based values in public life

Former IDF Armored Corps tank commander (Operation Defensive Shield, 2002) and Elbit Systems veteran who has emerged as Religious Zionism's leading English-language spokesperson and one of the Knesset's most active international ambassadors for Israel's case.

• Champions Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and Gaza as the path to lasting regional stability
• Backs decisive military and economic pressure on Hamas until total defeat in Gaza
• Pushes free-market deregulation and fintech competition reforms to strengthen Israel's economy
• Rejects a Palestinian state as incompatible with Israel's security and historic rights to the land
• Tirelessly advocates for Israel abroad, strengthening ties with the US, Taiwan, and allied democracies

Ethiopian-born religious-Zionist leader, IDF Paratroopers veteran and lieutenant colonel in the reserves, and the first Ethiopian-Israeli MK from the religious-Zionist camp.

• Champions integration and advancement of the Ethiopian-Israeli community, securing major budgets for education, Jewish identity, and pre-military programs
• Voted against the Torah Study Basic Law in 2026 on principle, insisting Torah study and IDF service must go hand in hand and citing bereaved religious-Zionist families
• Supports the Religious Zionist Party's commitment to Jewish communities across Judea and Samaria

Yitzhar community leader and former Otzma Yehudit executive director; first entered the Knesset Feb 2023 under the Norwegian Law replacing Smotrich, briefly stepped aside in Jan 2025, and returned in April 2025.

• Opposes demolition of Jewish communities and outposts in Judea and Samaria
• Advocates extensive expansion of Jewish communities throughout Judea and Samaria, including applying Israeli sovereignty
• Supports Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount
• Also chairs the Knesset Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria (since Nov 2023)
• Took over the Education Committee chair in Dec 2025 after Shas's Yosef Taieb vacated it

Right-wing nationalist activist and lawyer from Kiryat Arba/Hebron who leads Otzma Yehudit.

• Religious-Zionist activist from his teens; trained as a lawyer and built a career defending Jewish nationalist defendants and hilltop-youth activists in court
• Took over leadership of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) in 2019 and brought it into the Knesset in 2022 as part of the Religious Zionism slate
• As National Security Minister, oversaw a major expansion of police and Border Police presence in mixed cities and the periphery, and pushed through tougher prison conditions for convicted security prisoners
• Dramatically loosened civilian gun-licensing rules after October 7; by late 2025 over 330,000 Israelis held permits, credited by supporters with deterring attacks during the wartime period
• Long-time advocate of the death penalty for convicted terrorists and of expanded Jewish prayer access to the Temple Mount

Old-City-of-Jerusalem-born religious-Zionist educator who co-founded the Oz Ve'emuna hesder yeshiva in Tel Aviv with Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger (later killed in a 2019 terror attack near Ariel), and served in the IDF's Golani Brigade through the hesder track.

• Co-founded the Oz Ve'emuna hesder yeshiva in south Tel Aviv with Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger, integrating intensive Torah study with combat service in the IDF
• Entered the Knesset in November 2022 as its youngest member at age 30, publicizing his personal phone number in his maiden speech and keeping it open for citizens, especially evacuated families, throughout the war
• As Minister for the Negev and Galilee, has directed billions of shekels in development funding to outlying communities, including major post-Oct 7 rehabilitation of Gaza-envelope and northern-border towns, and frequently visits frontline areas in person (a Hezbollah missile landed meters from him during one such visit)
• Resigned with the rest of Otzma Yehudit's ministers in January 2025 over the Hamas hostage-ceasefire deal, and returned to the cabinet in March 2025 when fighting resumed
• Supports Jewish communities and continued building in Judea and Samaria
• Backs a firm Otzma Yehudit security line, including a robust IDF response in Gaza and the north, and full Israeli sovereignty in the Land of Israel

Jerusalem-born rabbi from a distinguished Sephardi rabbinic family: grandson of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and son of Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. Former chairman of the Association of Rabbis of Communities in Israel; lives in the community of Rimonim in Binyamin and entered the Knesset in 2022.

• Scion of one of Israel's most respected religious-Zionist rabbinic dynasties
• Long active in strengthening Jewish life and Torah identity in Israel's periphery before entering politics
• As Minister of Heritage, has expanded state support for Jewish heritage sites, archaeology in Judea and Samaria, and religious-Zionist educational programs
• Supports Jewish resettlement of Gaza and voluntary emigration of Gazans, framing it as both a security imperative and a fulfillment of Israel's biblical inheritance
• Backs the application of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria; rejects the indefensible pre-1967 lines as a basis for policy
• Has publicly defended a basic law to recognize Torah study as a foundational value of the Jewish state

Retired IDF brigadier general and former chief of staff of Southern Command (under Doron Almog during the Second Intifada) who joined Otzma Yehudit in 2022 and brings decades of frontline counter-terrorism experience to the Knesset.

• Chairs the Knesset National Security Committee, drawing on extensive IDF command experience
• Argues Israel must retain operational freedom to defeat terror groups and should not be hamstrung by selectively applied international legal standards
• Supports robust deterrence policies to protect Israeli civilians from rocket fire and terror infiltration
• Calls for the full demilitarization and depopulation of Gaza of Hamas infrastructure as part of a durable post-war settlement
• Defends decisive IDF rules of engagement in border-zone incidents as necessary to safeguard soldiers and communities

Terror-attack survivor and community-rebuilding activist living in Shavei Shomron; her first husband Shuli was murdered by Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen in a 2003 ambush near Homesh that left her critically wounded while seven months pregnant (the lead terrorist was eliminated by the IDF in Rafah in 2024).

• Co-founded 'Homesh First' to restore the Jewish community evacuated in the 2005 Disengagement
• Lead sponsor of the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law, passed by the Knesset on March 30, 2026
• Advanced legislation banning flags of terror-supporting entities on Israeli university campuses
• Champions stronger deterrence and sentencing for terrorists who murder Jews
• Supports applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria

Golan Heights resident (Natur), Second Lebanon War veteran and longtime Otzma Yehudit activist who entered the Knesset in January 2023 replacing Amihai Eliyahu under the Norwegian Law, and was appointed committee chair in August 2025.

• Advocates restoring Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount
• Championed legislation easing bureaucracy for hostage families seeking their loved ones' return from Gaza
• Proposed lowering minimum age for terror-offense incarceration to strengthen deterrence
• Served on the Judicial Selection Committee as part of the coalition's judicial reform effort
• Supports applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and expanding Jewish communities
• Holds that IDF presence, sovereignty, and settlement are the surest paths to lasting security

Former Beersheba police officer who founded the Negev Rescue Committee and its Barel Rangers civilian-security patrols to combat Bedouin crime waves threatening Jewish communities in the south; resigned his Knesset seat on April 2, 2025 under the Norwegian Law to become deputy minister, a move that allowed Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot to enter the Knesset. Briefly announced a resignation from the government in June 2025 to push a Negev airport bill, but withdrew it within 48 hours after Netanyahu intervened.

• Sponsored legislation banning public displays of the Palestinian flag and flags of hostile entities
• Proposed restricting TikTok use in East Jerusalem on counter-incitement and security grounds
• Sought to bar Israeli NGOs from receiving donations funneled by states that do not recognize Israel's sovereignty
• Has broken with Otzma Yehudit leader Ben-Gvir on coalition discipline, notably refusing to resign with the rest of the party over the 2025 Gaza ceasefire and continuing to back the government on key votes
• Champions stronger personal security and law enforcement for Jewish residents of the Negev

Morocco-born Shas chairman and long-serving champion of Sephardi-Haredi Jewry.

• Co-founded Shas in 1984 alongside the revered Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as a Sephardi-Haredi party giving political voice to Mizrahi Jews long marginalized by Israel's Ashkenazi establishment
• Appointed Interior Minister in December 1988 at age 29, the youngest cabinet minister in Israel's history, and widely credited with modernizing the ministry
• Convicted of bribery in 1999 in a case the Sephardi-Haredi community long viewed as selective prosecution; served his sentence and rebuilt his standing through Torah study and communal service
• Returned to Shas leadership in 2013 and remains one of Prime Minister Netanyahu's most trusted confidants, included in top-level security and policy deliberations even after a 2023 High Court ruling, controversial in religious circles, barred him from formal ministerial office
• Long-time coalition builder who has helped form most Israeli governments since the 1990s and continues to advocate forcefully for Torah study, yeshiva funding, and the religious character of the Jewish state

Jerusalem-born Shas rabbi, Hebron Yeshiva alumnus and former Jerusalem City Council member; served as Minister of Religious Services strengthening Israel's religious infrastructure, and as acting Interior Minister during Deri's appeal, until Shas ministers stepped down in July 2025 over the unresolved yeshiva-student conscription framework.

• Champions robust state support for religious councils and the Chief Rabbinate as pillars of Jewish life in Israel
• Defends the vital role of full-time Torah study and seeks a respectful arrangement preserving yeshiva learning alongside national service
• Upholds halachic standards for Jewish conversion in Israel through the Chief Rabbinate
• Advances religious services and Torah education budgets for Sephardic communities
• Previously chaired the Knesset Special Committee for Bridging Social Gaps in the Periphery (until October 2025)

Morocco-born Shas veteran who immigrated to Israel as a child, served as chairman of the Beersheba religious council, and has represented Sephardic Torah-observant Israelis in the Knesset since 2003, holding the Welfare portfolio until Shas honorably withdrew from the coalition in July 2025 over the unresolved yeshiva student conscription issue.

• Champions welfare programs that lift up Haredi families, Sephardic communities, and Israel's working poor
• Defends the irreplaceable spiritual contribution of full-time yeshiva learners to the Jewish people and supports protecting their ability to continue Torah study
• Upholds the traditional Jewish character of personal status law as a cornerstone of Israel's identity as a Jewish state
• Announced in May 2026 he will not seek re-election after a distinguished 23-year Knesset career, while remaining committed to the Shas movement

Kfar Saba-born (1958) Shas rabbi and former Nahal Brigade reserve captain; ran Shas's Ma'ayan HaHinuch HaTorani religious school network before entering the Knesset in June 2014 as a replacement for Ariel Atias; served as Minister in the Labor Ministry and as acting Health Minister after the High Court disqualified Aryeh Deri; resigned from the cabinet in July 2025 with the rest of Shas's ministers over the yeshiva-student draft impasse.

• Champions Haredi labor-market integration programs and family benefits
• Backs Torah-study deferments and yeshiva stipends as continuation of Israel's spiritual mission
• Supports Shabbat observance in the public sector
• Promotes Sephardic Torah education and Ma'ayan HaHinuch funding
• Endured a November 2025 attack on his car by anti-draft extremists for backing Shas's compromise draft legislation

Beersheba-born former mayor of Beit Shemesh (2008-2018) who entered the Knesset in 2019; chairs the Shas-led Knesset lobby for the preservation of Shabbat as Israel's national day of rest.

• Leads parliamentary lobby safeguarding Shabbat as Israel's day of rest
• Champions Torah-study deferrals and yeshiva funding for the Haredi community
• Upholds the religious status quo on conversion and marriage
• Advances Haredi housing and municipal investment

Ramla-born Shas MK and grandson of the revered Moroccan-born Chief Rabbi of Ramla "the Baba Khaki" (Yitzhak Abihatsira); entered Knesset in 2018 via the Norwegian Law succeeding Aryeh Deri, served as deputy mayor of Petah Tikva for nearly two decades, and was appointed Health Minister on October 12, 2023 amid the wartime cabinet reshuffle, where he focused on closing center-periphery health gaps, expanding mental health services, and equipping hospitals with backup generators ahead of the Hezbollah front; resigned with fellow Shas ministers in July 2025 over the Haredi draft-exemption dispute (while continuing to serve as MK), and ran a strong but unsuccessful 2024 campaign for Bnei Brak mayor.

• Champions Torah-study exemptions and continued yeshiva funding as vital to Jewish continuity
• Promotes public health investment for periphery communities and Mizrahi neighborhoods
• Defends the religious status quo within Israel's health system
• Loyal ally of Aryeh Deri and Shas's Council of Torah Sages on coalition strategy

Paris-born Shas MK of Tunisian Jewish descent and former community rabbi in Toulouse; the first French-born member of Knesset, he made aliyah at 17 and served in the Givati Brigade; entered the Knesset in July 2020 under the Norwegian Law as replacement for Yoav Ben-Tzur and chaired the Education, Culture and Sports Committee from 2023 until October 2025, when Shas vacated coalition committee posts to press for a Haredi draft framework.

• Defends state funding for Haredi independent school networks
• Backs Jewish identity and religious content in public-school curricula
• Supports Torah-study exemptions for full-time yeshiva students
• Champions ties between Israel and Diaspora Sephardic communities, especially French Jewry
• Calls on French Jews facing antisemitism to make aliyah

Shas faction chairman who entered the Knesset in March 2018 as a Norwegian Law replacement for his late father David Azulai, a revered longtime Shas minister of religious services; serves on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

• Champions Torah scholarship and the protection of full-time yeshiva learners from conscription
• Upholds the traditional status quo at the Western Wall plaza
• Defends halachic standards for conversion under the Chief Rabbinate
• Advocates strong funding for Sephardic religious services and Torah institutions

Jerusalem-born Shas MK of Yemenite heritage and longtime aide to party leader Aryeh Deri; entered the Knesset January 2023 under the Norwegian Law replacing Uriel Bosso, stepped down from committee chairs Oct 2025 alongside fellow Shas members in a principled stand for Haredi draft legislation, and resumed the Health Committee chairmanship Feb 2026.

• Leads Health Committee, advancing public-health legislation for all Israelis
• Sponsored landmark law establishing a national day commemorating Yemenite Jewish aliyah
• Champions Torah-study protections and yeshiva funding
• Defends Israel's Jewish character on Shabbat and kashrut
• Promotes accessible health infrastructure for Haredi and underserved communities

Shas MK (born 1978) who lives in the Jerusalem-area community of Givat Ze'ev; longtime CEO of Shas and head of the Ma'ayan HaHinukh HaTorani Sephardic-religious school network, which he expanded by roughly 10,000 students; served as Minister in the Education Ministry until resigning in July 2025 alongside other Shas ministers to press for legislation safeguarding Torah-study deferments.

• Champions state support for Sephardic-religious and Haredi school networks that serve hundreds of thousands of Israeli children
• Advocates legal protection for full-time yeshiva students whose Torah study is a pillar of Jewish continuity
• Supports robust Jewish and Torah content in publicly funded schools
• Builds out Shas's grassroots educational infrastructure serving Israel's Sephardic and traditional communities

Shas MK, yeshiva-educated attorney, and former advisor to Minister of Religious Services David Azulai who first entered the Knesset in February 2023 under the Norwegian Law and returned in 2026 after Arbel's resignation.

• Champions robust funding for religious services and the Chief Rabbinate
• Defends Torah-study deferrals for yeshiva students as a vital national asset
• Upholds halachic standards in marriage, conversion, and personal-status matters
• Promotes Sephardic Torah communities and welfare for traditional families

Veteran statesman and former Likud minister who founded New Hope in 2020, returned to government in 2024 as Foreign Minister, and merged his party back into Likud in 2025.

• Served as Cabinet Secretary under Netanyahu (1999) and Sharon (2001-02) before entering the Knesset for Likud in 2003
• Served as Education Minister (2009-13) and Interior Minister (2013-14) under Netanyahu, championing civics education and Jewish heritage curricula
• Founded New Hope in 2020 after splitting from Likud; later served as Justice Minister and Deputy PM (2021-22) in the Bennett-Lapid government
• Returned to Netanyahu's wartime coalition in Nov 2024 as Foreign Minister, leading Israel's diplomacy during the post-Oct 7 campaigns
• Merged New Hope back into Likud in March 2025 and resigned his Knesset seat in July 2025 to make room for Druze MK Akram Hasson, while continuing as Foreign Minister
• Long-time advocate of robust security policy; opposes a Palestinian state west of the Jordan, supports settlement enterprise, and has pushed Western capitals to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization

Kharkiv-born Religious Zionist and veteran Netanyahu ally who served in multiple Likud cabinets before joining Sa'ar's New Hope in 2020; now leads the post-Oct. 7 reconstruction of Israel's south and north and sits on the security cabinet. New Hope signed a 2025 agreement to rejoin Likud at the next election.

• Heads Tekuma and Northern Rehabilitation directorates rebuilding Gaza-envelope and Galilee communities
• Calls 'partial sovereignty' limited to settlement blocs a strategic mistake, urging full sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
• Long-standing advocate of Jewish communities and construction in Judea and Samaria
• Champions a strong state role in aliyah and immigrant absorption, drawing on his own oleh experience
• Backs sustained military pressure on Hamas as essential leverage to free the hostages

Toronto-born former Border Police combat officer and ex-Likud MK, regarded as the Knesset's leading classical-liberal voice and one of Israel's most effective public diplomacy figures abroad since taking office as deputy FM in 2024.

• Classical liberal championing free markets and civil liberties
• Leading Knesset proponent of cannabis legalization and decriminalization
• Heads Knesset LGBT caucus; backs same-sex marriage recognition
• Spearheads Israel's diplomatic outreach to Africa and the Pacific, dubbed 'the Golda of Africa'
• Right-wing on security; opposes territorial compromise and backs applying sovereignty to the Jordan Valley
• Vocal on countering antisemitism and online anti-Israel narratives

Ashkelon businessman and former Likud city councilman/deputy mayor who joined Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope in 2021 and entered the Knesset in July 2024 replacing Yifat Shasha-Biton after she retired from politics.

• Focuses on rebuilding and securing rocket-hit southern communities
• Backs continued military operations to dismantle Hamas in Gaza
• Champions local-government and small-business interests
• Aligned with Sa'ar on hawkish security policy
• Supported the 2025 New Hope-Likud merger uniting the right-wing bloc

Druze politician; deputy mayor of Daliyat al-Karmel (1989-1998), mayor of merged Carmel City (2003-2008); previously an MK for Kadima and Kulanu; first non-Jewish recipient of the Golden Inkwell prize from the Hebrew Writers Association (2012); entered the Knesset for his third stint with New Hope in July 2025.

• Champions Druze community rights and integration in Israeli society
• Long-time advocate of preserving the primacy of the Hebrew language
• Supports the deep Israel-Druze covenant in military service and civic life
• Has pushed Israel to open humanitarian corridors and send aid to Syrian Druze villages under threat
• Sharp critic of Syria's post-Assad Islamist leadership under al-Sharaa, whom he calls a killer
• Offered Israeli mediation to help restore Jewish property in Kurdish-controlled Qamishli
• Backs the Netanyahu coalition from New Hope's bench

Chairman of United Torah Judaism and leader of its Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction; senior representative of the Ger Hasidic dynasty in the Knesset.

• Long-time Hasidic communal leader; CEO of the Beit Yaakov and Beit Petahia kindergarten and daycare network serving Ger families, a role inherited from his father
• Appointed by the Gerrer Rebbe to lead Agudat Yisrael in June 2022, succeeding Yaakov Litzman
• First entered the Knesset in 2022 and led UTJ into Netanyahu's coalition, bringing a strong voice for Torah Judaism into government
• Served as Minister of Housing and Construction (Dec 2022 - June 12, 2025), focusing on expanding affordable housing for Israel's growing religious communities
• Resigned from the cabinet at the direction of the Gerrer Rebbe after the government failed to enact the long-promised yeshiva-student draft framework, defending the centrality of Torah study to the Jewish people
• Lead UTJ voice on protecting yeshiva learning, securing funding for Haredi educational institutions, and upholding Sabbath observance in public life

Veteran Lithuanian-Haredi rabbi and politician, longtime leader of Degel HaTorah within UTJ and a leading parliamentary voice for the Torah world.

• Senior Lithuanian-Haredi statesman; first entered the Knesset in 1988 on the Degel HaTorah list
• Chairman of United Torah Judaism and longtime leader of the Degel HaTorah faction
• Chaired the Knesset Finance Committee multiple times (most recently 2022-2025), shepherding state budgets through a turbulent wartime period before resigning in July 2025 when UTJ left the coalition over the yeshiva-student conscription dispute
• Leading advocate for state recognition and funding of Lithuanian yeshivas, framing Torah study as a foundational contribution to Israel's national life and security
• Sponsored Basic-Law legislation seeking to enshrine Torah study as a core value of the State of Israel alongside military service
• Principled critic of Supreme Court intervention in religion-state matters, defending the Knesset's authority to legislate on Haredi communal life
• His Bnei Brak-area home was damaged in an Iranian missile strike during the June 2025 Israel-Iran exchange

Veteran Jerusalem-born Hasidic statesman (b. 1955) and longtime Agudat Yisrael leader who served as Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Tradition until UTJ ministers honored their rabbinical council's directive to leave the coalition in July 2025 over the yeshiva-student draft dispute.

• Champions Torah-study deferrals and robust yeshiva funding as pillars of Jewish continuity
• Promotes Jewish-tradition and heritage education in public schools
• Backs Haredi housing solutions and strengthened Jerusalem-municipal funding
• Defends the religious status quo on Shabbat in the public sphere

Bnei Brak-born Lithuanian-Haredi rabbi and Ponevezh Yeshiva alumnus; served Jerusalem residents as deputy mayor 1993-2008 with the education portfolio; has represented Degel HaTorah in the Knesset since July 2008 and is widely respected as a steady, policy-focused voice for the Torah community.

• Champions the protection of full-time Torah study and yeshiva students as a vital pillar of Jewish continuity
• Supports state partnership with Lithuanian yeshivas and kollels that anchor Israel's spiritual life
• Upholds the sanctity of Shabbat and Israel's longstanding religious status quo in public transport
• Brings rigorous, hands-on expertise to transport, infrastructure, and road-safety policy

Distinguished Lithuanian-Haredi rabbi and longtime communal leader; served as the thirteenth mayor of Bnei Brak (2008-2013) before entering the Knesset for Degel HaTorah in 2013; previously Secretary General of Degel HaTorah and chair of the UTJ faction; appointed Deputy Speaker in February 2022.

• Resigned Interior Committee chair in July 2025 when UTJ left the coalition over the Haredi conscription bill dispute
• Champions Haredi-majority municipalities' funding, services, and communal autonomy
• Advocates for yeshiva students and the protection of full-time Torah study as a foundational Jewish value
• Supports preserving Israel's traditional religious status quo on Shabbat and in public space

Jerusalem-born Hasidic leader from the Sanhedria neighborhood, son of a Vizhnitz yeshiva rosh yeshiva; educated in Vizhnitz and Tshebin yeshivas before moving to Ashdod, where he served on the city council from 2013 as an Agudat Yisrael representative; entered the Knesset in 2019 as the chief Vizhnitz voice on the UTJ list; returned via Norwegian Law on July 17, 2025 after UTJ honorably withdrew from the coalition over the yeshiva-student draft issue.

• Champions Haredi cultural and sports programming that respects Torah modesty standards
• Defends the irreplaceable national contribution of full-time Torah scholars and their traditional draft arrangements
• Upholds the religious status quo on Shabbat, kashrut, and halachic conversion
• Faithfully follows the guidance of the Vizhnitz Rebbe and Agudat Yisrael's Council of Torah Sages on coalition strategy

Lithuanian-Haredi rabbi and veteran public servant (born 1971); served as mayor of Beitar Illit (2001-2007) and deputy mayor of Jerusalem (from 2008); returned to the Knesset on January 21, 2026 under the Norwegian Law after Yisrael Eichler was appointed Deputy Communications Minister.

• Principled defender of yeshiva-student deferments and the centrality of Torah study
• Upholds traditional halachic standards for conversion to Judaism
• Champions classical Jewish values regarding family and public life
• Advocates state support for Lithuanian yeshivas that have sustained Torah scholarship for generations

Founder of the religious-Zionist Noam party and longtime public servant who served as chief of staff to former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky; helped establish the Migdal Oz community in Gush Etzion in 1977 and previously campaigned for Soviet Jewry's right to make aliyah.

• Champions a Jewish-identity agenda rooted in traditional Torah values and the religious-Zionist family model
• Seeks to reform the Law of Return's 'grandchild clause' to better align eligibility with halachic Jewish identity
• Supports the Chief Rabbinate's authority over conversions in line with traditional Orthodox standards
• Advocates preserving the traditional Torah-rooted exemption of religious women from mandatory IDF service, in favor of national or religious-service alternatives
• Advocates applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria

Former TV news anchor and columnist who founded Yesh Atid in 2012 on a secular-centrist platform.

• Founded Yesh Atid in 2012; the party broke through to win 19 seats in its first election (2013)
• Served as Finance Minister (2013-14) in Netanyahu's third government
• Served as Foreign Minister (2021-22) and caretaker Prime Minister (2022) in the short-lived Bennett-Lapid government
• Won Yesh Atid's first leadership primary in March 2024, narrowly defeating Ram Ben-Barak
• Long advocated positions opposed by much of religious Israel, including ending the Haredi yeshiva-study draft deferment, civil marriage, and state recognition of non-Orthodox streams
• After Yesh Atid sank to roughly 6-7 seats in polling, announced a joint slate with Naftali Bennett in April 2026 called 'Together' (Beyachad), led by Bennett, to contest the 2026 election

Moroccan-born former teacher and two-term mayor of Dimona who revitalized the Negev city's industrial base; joined Yesh Atid in October 2012, served twice as welfare minister (2013-14, 2021-22), and now sits as Yair Lapid's number-two on the Yesh Atid slate.

• Champions welfare reform and anti-poverty programs
• Focus on Negev and peripheral-town development
• Voice for Mizrahi Jewish representation in centrist politics
• Supports raising minimum wage and old-age pensions
• Tapped in 2025 as Yesh Atid's candidate to chair the Jewish National Fund (KKL)

Disability-rights lawyer with muscular dystrophy who directed Bar-Ilan's legal aid clinics before entering Knesset in 2013; served as energy minister 2021-2022 and is the first person with a disability to sit in an Israeli cabinet.

• Directed Bar-Ilan University's legal aid clinics before entering the Knesset in 2013, pioneering legal advocacy for Israelis with disabilities
• Long-time champion of accessibility and disability-rights legislation, helping make Israel a regional leader on inclusion
• Served as Energy Minister (2021-22); advanced Israel's energy mix toward natural gas and renewables while approving key offshore exploration permits that strengthen Israeli energy security
• Aligned with Yesh Atid's secular platform, including its call to broaden national service obligations, while acknowledging the importance of dialogue with Israel's religious communities
• Currently the opposition's representative on the Judicial Selection Committee, where she voted in January 2025 to confirm Isaac Amit as Supreme Court president and continues to press for professional judicial appointments

Jerusalem-born economist and former social-equality minister who began as PMO socio-economic spokesperson under Sharon in 2004 and led an anti-elderly-fraud NGO before entering the Knesset with Blue and White in 2019.

• Champions protecting elderly Israelis from financial abuse and scams
• Advocates social-equality programs and investment in periphery and minority communities
• Supports fair-business practices and strong consumer-protection regulation
• Backs centrist Yesh Atid platform of pragmatic, broad-based government

Retired IDF major general and former head of the Manpower (Human Resources) Directorate, where he launched the Nativ program that has guided over 12,000 soldiers from the former Soviet Union to halachic conversion; a kippah-wearing modern-Orthodox voice who entered the Knesset in 2013 with Tzipi Livni's HaTnuah and joined Yesh Atid in 2015 to advance religious-Zionist reform from within.

• Champions broader access to halachic conversion through municipal-rabbi tribunals, building on his Nativ legacy
• Urges expanding IDF and national-service participation so the burden of defending Israel is more widely shared, while respecting Torah scholarship
• Calls for state recognition of non-Orthodox streams alongside the existing Orthodox framework
• Seeks to open marriage and kashrut options beyond the Chief Rabbinate while preserving halachic standards
• Was a vocal critic of the 2023 judicial reform package and has pushed for broad national unity

Former Jerusalem police chief and police attache in Washington who entered politics with Yesh Atid in 2013.

• Former Jerusalem District Police chief; served as police attaché in Washington
• Entered the Knesset with Yesh Atid in 2013
• Served as Speaker of the Knesset (2021-22) during the Bennett-Lapid 'change government'
• Long-time advocate of anti-corruption enforcement and government accountability
• Of Kurdish-Jewish heritage; vocal supporter of Kurdish self-determination

Former IDF Education Corps officer (education officer of the Golani Brigade) and Reichman University alumna (BA and MBA) who entered Knesset in 2015 with Kulanu, lost her seat in 2019, rejoined via Yesh Atid in 2021, and made history as the first woman to chair the Knesset's National Security Committee.

• Co-sponsor of the landmark electronic-monitoring law protecting domestic-violence victims
• Champion of LGBT rights and gender-equality legislation
• Advocates for at-risk youth and lone soldiers
• Pushes accountability for sexual harassment in security forces
• Supports a state commission of inquiry into October 7 to strengthen Israel's resilience

Former deputy director of the Mossad and director-general of the intelligence and strategic-affairs ministries with decades in counter-terrorism operations.

• Former deputy director of the Mossad
• Served as director-general of the Intelligence and Strategic Affairs ministries
• Entered politics with Yesh Atid in 2019
• Long-time advocate of preventive action against Iran's nuclear program and deeper Gulf / Abraham Accords ties
• Challenged Lapid in Yesh Atid's first leadership primary in 2024, narrowly losing 308-279

Decorated career police officer who rose to major general and founded Lahav 433, Israel's elite national anti-corruption unit, before retiring in 2013 and bringing his law-enforcement expertise to the Knesset with Yesh Atid.

• Champions combating organized crime and gun violence harming Arab Israeli communities
• Pushes vigorous anti-corruption enforcement to safeguard Israel's democratic institutions
• Defends the professional independence and integrity of the Israel Police
• Backs strengthening the independent prosecution authority as a pillar of the rule of law

Beersheba-raised attorney and social activist who served over four years as director-general of the Zionist Council in Israel (a branch of the World Zionist Organization), entering the Knesset on the Yesh Atid list in late May 2026 after veteran MK Boaz Toporovsky stepped away from political life.

• Champions deepening Jewish-Zionist identity, education, and Israel-Diaspora ties
• Promotes Jewish peoplehood and the shared Zionist heritage uniting Israeli society
• Advocates strengthening Israel's democratic institutions and civic education
• Founded grassroots initiatives to close digital and social gaps among Israeli children

Bar-Ilan political science graduate and longtime Likud activist who rose through Gideon Sa'ar's orbit, joined his New Hope party in late 2020, then moved to Yesh Atid in 2022 where she now serves in the opposition.

• Center-right voice opposing the 2023 judicial overhaul package
• Seeks a change of government as her core electoral mission
• Supports market-oriented economic policy
• Backs the settlement enterprise on security grounds while opposing unilateral annexation

Tel Aviv-born lawyer (Tel Aviv University LLB, executive LLM with Northwestern) and former Times of Israel blogger who led Yesh Atid's youth wing from 2013; though medically exempt, he volunteered for six years of IDF service including the IDF delegation to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka; first entered Knesset in April 2019 via the Yesh Atid/Blue and White alliance and has served continuously since 2021; one of Israel's openly gay MKs and head of the Knesset's LGBTQ caucus.

• Leading parliamentary voice for LGBT rights and same-sex parenting
• Champions civil marriage and equal access to surrogacy
• After October 7 publicly rebuked Western LGBTQ groups that sided with Hamas, stressing Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where LGBTQ people enjoy full rights and representation
• Opposed the 2023 judicial overhaul and pushes back on religion-and-state legislation he sees as overreach
• Focused on mobilizing younger and secular voters for the Yesh Atid camp

Russian-born municipal consultant who made aliyah from Kemerovo in 1998 and entered the Knesset with Yesh Atid in 2021, where he advocates for Russian-speaking olim.

• Advocates for the absorption and integration of Russian-speaking olim into Israeli society
• Highlights the heavy contribution of FSU-immigrant soldiers and civilians in the war against Hamas
• Active fiscal watchdog on the Finance Committee, scrutinizing the state budget line by line
• Pushes for stronger state support for olim and returning Israelis

Yesh Atid MK, family-law attorney and former deputy mayor of Petah Tikva, where he ran the city's education administration before entering Knesset in 2021.

• Focus on family law and protection of minors
• Pushes municipal-government reform and local-authority funding
• Advocates for stronger public education in periphery cities
• Has proposed frameworks to broaden IDF service while preserving space for yeshiva study
• Supports preserving checks and balances and civil-service professionalism

Yesh Atid MK, PhD plant geneticist from Hebrew University and former Hazera Genetics researcher who became the first woman elected mayor of Yoav Regional Council in 2011, serving over a decade before entering Knesset in 2022.

• Champions Israeli agriculture and rural-community investment
• Advocates for women in farming and the food-security sector
• Pushes science-based agricultural policy and water reform
• Focus on regional-council and southern-periphery interests

Soviet-born (Bryansk, 1976) healthcare leader who made aliyah at 17 through the Jewish Agency's Youth Aliyah and ran two Leumit medical centers in Karmiel before entering Knesset in June 2021.

• Lead voice on healthcare-budget protection and access to medicines
• Secured budget directives for multilingual patient services (Russian, English, French, Amharic)
• Fights credentialing barriers facing immigrant doctors and pharmacists from the former Soviet Union
• Champions periphery healthcare and northern-region clinics
• Co-chairs the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, building ties with Israel's Evangelical Christian allies

Yesh Atid MK and animal-welfare campaigner who entered Knesset in 2021 via the Norwegian Law after Orna Barbivai's cabinet appointment; famously described herself in her maiden speech as a 'third-generation cat feeder.'

• Leading parliamentary advocate for animal rights and welfare, securing NIS 12 million to spay and neuter Israel's street cats
• Pushed extension of anti-money-laundering law to wildlife trafficking
• Treats crime in Arab society as a core public-safety priority requiring state action
• Favors a more secular character for state legislation while operating within Israel's Jewish and democratic framework

Sderot-born lawyer and longtime Yesh Atid leader in the rocket-battered southern border city who entered Knesset in 2022 and lived through October 7 with family in the Gaza envelope.

• Champions Sderot and Gaza-envelope security, resilience, and post-October 7 reconstruction
• Backs Yesh Atid's vision of a negotiated two-state framework that preserves Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with defensible borders
• Pushes for fortified safe rooms, shelters, and emergency infrastructure across Israel's south
• Advocates for periphery and Mizrahi communities and for strengthening mental-health support for war-affected residents

Philadelphia-born religious-Zionist educator (son of British olim) who directed Jerusalem's municipal education system, the Religious Kibbutz Movement's school network, and World ORT's Israel network; served as IDF reserve officer in Gaza and published a war diary in 2025.

• Champions public-education reform and rigorous curricular standards
• Bridges religious-Zionist and secular streams within Yesh Atid
• Advocates that Haredi schools teaching core subjects strengthens both Torah communities and the wider Jewish state
• Supports Jewish pluralism and dialogue with Christian Zionist allies

Vilnius-born oleh (immigrated to Israel as a toddler in 1972), former senior swimming coach and longtime chairman of the Israel Swimming Association who joined the Olympic Committee of Israel before entering Knesset in 2021 with Yesh Atid.

• Champions major investment in youth sports as anti-crime, anti-drugs policy
• Fights antisemitism and exclusion of Israeli athletes in international competition
• Focuses on building sports facilities and coaching in periphery towns
• Backs a state commission of inquiry into October 7

Israeli Navy veteran and former Hod HaSharon deputy mayor; advised Yesh Atid MK Boaz Toporovsky from 2014 before being elected to the 25th Knesset in 2022.

• Champions rehabilitation of Kiryat Shmona and other northern border communities through free-trade-zone status, study grants, and housing discounts for IDF soldiers
• Advances bills to protect Israeli children from harmful social-media exposure under age 14
• Backs a fully demilitarized Gaza with Israeli security control after October 7 reshaped strategic realities
• Supports broadening national-service participation across Israeli society while respecting Torah-study communities

Former Israeli Air Force spokesperson and AH-1 Cobra flight instructor who worked in Southeast Asian tech before entering Knesset in February 2023 replacing Razvozov.

• Leading international advocate for hostage release and hostage families
• Documents Hamas sexual violence on Oct 7 in foreign parliaments
• Pushes for more women in politics and senior military roles
• Focus on technology, science and Aliyah policy

Former Israeli judo champion and IJF Junior World Tour winner (2000) who served as deputy mayor of Bat Yam before entering Knesset in August 2023, succeeding Orna Barbivai.

• Champions sports, youth, and beachfront municipal portfolios drawing on his athletic background
• Advocates for Bat Yam and central-coast urban development and quality of life
• Follows the Yesh Atid line favoring broad consensus on any changes to the judicial system

Israeli lawyer and longtime women's-rights and disability-rights advocate; former adviser to PM Yair Lapid on disability affairs and CEO of The Women's Courtyard NGO (which runs warm homes for at-risk girls). Sworn in on 13 August 2025 to replace Idan Roll, who had split from Yesh Atid in January 2025 to form an independent 'National Majority' faction before retiring from politics.

• Founded the NGO 'Tsedek Tsedek Rodfot' (2015) pushing harsher penalties for sexual offenses against women and children
• Champions UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on protecting women in conflict zones
• Former legal adviser to ALUT, Israel's leading autism family-support association
• Serves on the Knesset's Education, Culture and Sports Committee, focusing on at-risk young women and combating gender-based violence

Former IDF Chief of Staff (2011-2015) who entered politics in 2019 and today leads Blue and White-National Unity in the Knesset opposition.

• IDF Chief of Staff 2011-2015; commanded Operation Pillar of Defense (2012) and Operation Protective Edge (2014), defending Israeli communities from Hamas rocket fire on Gaza
• Founded Blue and White in 2019, contesting three elections against Netanyahu as a centrist statesmanship alternative
• Served as Defense Minister (2020-22) and Alternate Prime Minister (2020-21) in the unity rotation deal with Netanyahu
• Joined Netanyahu's emergency war cabinet after October 7 (Oct 2023 - Jun 2024) to project national unity, before exiting over war-aim disagreements
• Rebranded the faction back to Blue and White-National Unity in July 2025 after MKs Eisenkot and Kahana departed, positioning it as a consensus-building bloc ahead of the 2026 election
• Long-time advocate of demilitarized Gaza and a negotiated framework with strong Jordan Valley security guarantees for Israel

Ethiopian-born lawyer airlifted to Israel as a toddler in Operation Moses (1984); first Ethiopian-born woman elected to the Knesset and first Ethiopian-born Israeli cabinet minister; granddaughter of a prominent Beta Israel spiritual leader.

• Brought to Israel at age 3 via Operation Moses, the IDF/Mossad airlift that rescued nearly 7,000 Ethiopian Jews
• Became Israel's first Ethiopian-born female MK in 2013 and first Ethiopian-born cabinet minister in 2020
• Served as Minister of Aliyah and Integration (2020-22), advancing Israel's mission of Jewish ingathering
• Led Operation Tzur Israel, completing the aliyah of long-waiting Ethiopian Jews, and oversaw the emergency aliyah of tens of thousands of Jews from Ukraine and Russia after the February 2022 invasion
• Long-time champion of Ethiopian-Israeli integration and against racism toward the community
• Continues to serve in the 25th Knesset with the National Unity Party in opposition

Jerusalem-born educator and social worker, son of Rabbi Daniel Tropper, who served in the IDF's elite Duvdevan Unit and later led education and welfare work in Yeruham; longtime Gantz confidant who served as culture minister 2020-2022.

• Centrist focus on education reform and social welfare in Israel's periphery communities
• Promoted cultural-sector funding and supported safe reopening during COVID as minister
• Backs broad-tent opposition unity as a path to a stable governing alternative
• Plans to form new party for 2026 election; began signature drive in June 2026
• Advocates expanding IDF service to meet wartime manpower needs, encouraging shared national responsibility alongside Torah study

Former mayor of Yeruham (2010-2018) credited with revitalizing the Negev development town through education, employment and population growth before entering national politics.

• Focus on closing socioeconomic gaps between Israel's center and periphery
• Supports judicial reform pursued by broad consensus; opposed the unilateral 2023 overhaul
• Champions investment in southern communities and Negev development
• Chaired the 25th Knesset's Special Committee for Strengthening and Developing the Negev and Galilee (Feb 2023 - Jan 2025), when MK Oded Forer succeeded him
• Has publicly pressed for a comprehensive hostage-release deal, accusing Ben-Gvir and Smotrich of obstructing earlier agreements

Lawyer and the first woman to chair the Public Utilities Authority for Electricity, where she pushed to open Israel's energy market to competition before becoming a serial minister.

• Chairs Knesset Subcommittee on AI and Advanced Technologies
• Champions regulatory reform and breaking up energy-sector monopolies
• Strong supporter of good-governance and anti-corruption measures
• Voiced concerns about the pace and scope of 2023 judicial reform legislation
• Backs technological-innovation, renewable-energy and R&D investment policy

Veteran leader of Israel's south who served 16 years as head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council in the Gaza envelope before serving as agriculture and deputy defense minister.

• Lead author of the post-Oct 7 Reconstruction Law rebuilding Gaza-envelope communities
• Maintains that Gaza reconstruction must be conditional on full demilitarization
• Champions rebuilding and repopulating the kibbutzim near the Gaza Strip
• Chairs Knesset caucuses for the Gaza envelope, confrontation-line residents, and Israeli agriculture
• Praised the establishment of the Tekuma Authority to coordinate rehabilitation of southern and northern communities
• Part of National Unity bloc that opposed the 2023 judicial overhaul on grounds of preserving broad consensus

Argentine-born politician who became Israel's first openly gay mayor (Ra'anana, March-October 2018, by city-council appointment after his predecessor's resignation) before entering the Knesset in 2019 and serving as Communications Minister in 2021.

• Advocates for LGBTQ civil-status reforms while serving in a Jewish state whose religious institutions retain authority over personal status
• Pushes municipal autonomy and local-government empowerment, drawing on his Ra'anana executive experience
• Returned to the Knesset July 4, 2025 under the Norwegian Law after Gadi Eisenkot's July 2 resignation
• Identifies with the liberal-centrist opposition while supporting Israel's security establishment and broad national-unity efforts
• Backs broadening shared national service while respecting the Torah-study contributions of the Haredi community

Returning MK who first entered the Knesset in December 2020 (Blue and White, as replacement for Ofer Shelah); lost her seat in 2022; re-entered in July 2025 replacing Matan Kahana.

• Promotes agricultural capital investment and rural-sector reform
• Works to narrow healthcare gaps between periphery and central regions
• Backs factory and industrial incentives for conflict-affected areas
• Advanced consumer debt-enforcement reform legislation
• Pushed for Highway 6 toll reform and northern extension

Veteran journalist, feminist activist, and former Labor leader who now sits with The Democrats; announced she will not run in the 2026 election.

• Veteran journalist (Ha'aretz, Channel 10) and feminist activist before entering politics
• Entered the Knesset in 2013 with Labor
• Elected leader of Labor in 2021, taking the party into the Bennett-Lapid coalition
• Served as Transport Minister (2021-22); expanded public transit and introduced free transit for seniors over 75
• Stepped down as Labor leader in 2024; party later merged with Meretz to form The Democrats under Yair Golan
• Long-time advocate of gender parity on party lists (the 'zipper' rule) and sexual-violence prevention legislation

Migdal HaEmek-born daughter of Moroccan-Jewish parents and IDF officer (Ministry of Defense, reserve Home Front Command); served on the Haifa City Council before entering the Knesset in 2021, focused on socioeconomic, periphery, and women's issues.

• Led 2021 cross-coalition push to raise the minimum hourly wage to 40 NIS
• Co-led Labor-Meretz merger negotiations producing The Democrats (2024)
• Backs a negotiated two-state framework alongside firm preservation of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state
• Co-sponsored electronic monitoring for convicted domestic abusers
• Advocate for hostage-deal urgency, LGBTQ rights, and democratic-governance reform

Reform rabbi and attorney who in 2021 became the first Reform clergyman elected to the Knesset; now sits with The Democrats (Labor-Meretz merger).

• Advocates broader recognition for Reform and Conservative streams alongside Israel's Orthodox tradition
• Seeks expanded civil options for marriage, conversion and burial while engaging respectfully with the Chief Rabbinate
• Opposed the 2023 judicial overhaul as previous Constitution Committee chair; favors reforms achieved through broad consensus
• Prioritizes the return of all hostages held in Gaza and strengthening IDF families
• Champions deeper ties between Israel and Diaspora Jewry, including non-Orthodox communities

Haifa-born former actress and lawyer who chaired Labor's Knesset faction after 2022 and rose to lead the Labor Party in 2025 after Yair Golan took the helm of the merged Democrats.

• Sits on Judicial Selection Committee; helped advance women and Israel's first Muslim Supreme Court justice
• Publicly condemned Hamas's October 7 atrocities and rebuked an Algerian delegate who denied the sexual violence
• Advocates for people with disabilities, the elderly and single parents
• Engaged constructively in the 2023 judicial reform debate while pressing for broad national consensus
• Backed Yair Golan in the 2024 Labor leadership race that produced The Democrats merger with Meretz
• Previously chaired the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee

Moldovan-born former PMO director-general who founded Yisrael Beiteinu in 1999.

• Moldovan-born; immigrated to Israel in 1978 and rose through Likud as a young activist
• Served as director-general of the Prime Minister's Office under Netanyahu (1996-97)
• Founded Yisrael Beiteinu in 1999 to represent Russian-speaking immigrants and a secular-nationalist agenda
• Held nearly every major portfolio over his career: Foreign Minister (2009-12, 2013-15), Defense Minister (2016-18), and Finance Minister (2021-22)
• Author of the 'Lieberman Plan' proposing land/population swaps with a future Palestinian entity; refuses coalitions with Haredi or Arab parties

Former Minister of Agriculture and of Negev-Galilee Development (2021-22); long-serving Yisrael Beiteinu MK since 2015.

• Champions Negev and Galilee development and decentralization from Israel's center
• Authored 2022 law phasing out battery cages for egg-laying hens
• Strong advocate for aliyah; previously served as director-general of the Immigrant Absorption Ministry
• Aligned with party line favoring universal national service while debate continues with Haredi leaders on yeshiva-study exemptions
• Supports periphery infrastructure investment and agricultural sector reforms

Ukrainian-born Russian-language journalist and former BBC Russian and RTVI correspondent in Israel who made aliyah in 1997, entered the Knesset in 2019, and serves as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.

• Voice for Russian-speaking olim and the post-Soviet aliyah community
• Advocates streamlining recognition pathways for FSU immigrants with Jewish heritage
• Supports a shared national-service framework so the burden of defending Israel is borne broadly
• Strong supporter of Ukraine and critical of Russian government aggression

Reserve IDF brigadier general and former Chief of Staff's gender affairs advisor; first woman to command an operational C4I battalion and graduate of the National Security College.

• Focuses on national security policy and the integration of women in IDF combat and technical roles
• Advocates broadening the IDF's pool of recruits while seeking arrangements that respect Haredi religious life
• Backs Yisrael Beiteinu's secular-nationalist, pro-immigration platform
• Promotes gender equality and professional advancement within Israel's defense institutions

Ukrainian-born lawyer who immigrated to Israel in 1998 and has served in the Knesset since 2016 as part of the wave of Russian-speaking olim who strengthened Israeli democracy.

• Lead sponsor of landmark legislation designating UNRWA a terrorist organization complicit in October 7 atrocities
• Champions opening Israel's kashrut certification market to additional competition alongside Chief Rabbinate oversight
• Supports adding civil marriage option while preserving religious marriage tracks
• Backs broadening IDF service to include Haredi enlistees while respecting full-time Torah scholars
• Pushes to evict UNRWA from sovereign Jerusalem and cut its utilities

IDF veteran (1982-1986), attorney, and founder of a Druze youth movement, first elected in 2009; embodies the loyal partnership between the Druze community and the State of Israel.

• Crossed into the Syrian buffer zone in 2025 to bring Israeli Druze home and coordinated a historic visit of Syrian Druze to Israel after 50 years of closed borders
• Champions full statutory recognition and equal benefits for the Druze community, whose sons serve in the IDF
• Backs universal IDF service obligations applied equitably across all sectors of Israeli society
• Condemned the 2025 massacres of Syrian Druze and Alawites and supports Israel's protection of Druze populations across the border
• Joined the 2018 Druze petition seeking enhanced recognition of his community within the Nation-State Law framework

Dentist from Maghar; pragmatic head of Ra'am who became the first Arab party leader to join an Israeli governing coalition.

• Born 1974 in Maghar in the Galilee; trained as a dentist at Hebrew University
• Long-time head of the Southern Islamic Movement's political wing and leader of Ra'am (United Arab List)
• Led Ra'am to break from the Joint List in 2021 and chart an independent, pragmatic course in Arab-Israeli politics
• Became the first Arab party leader to join an Israeli governing coalition (Bennett-Lapid 2021-22), a historic milestone for Israeli democracy and Arab-Jewish partnership
• Secured tens of billions of shekels in development plans for Arab municipalities and recognition of Negev Bedouin villages during the Bennett-Lapid coalition
• Publicly recognizes Israel as a Jewish state and emphasizes integration of Arab citizens into Israeli civic life
• Announced in 2025 that Ra'am would open its ranks to Jewish candidates, signaling a shift toward a broader shared-society party
• Plans to run in the 2026 election as Ra'am leader but has said he will step back from national politics afterward

Born 1968 in Kafr Qasim, where he chairs the local Islamic Movement branch; former principal of Al Huda School in Ramla; has led Ra'am's parliamentary operations since first being elected in September 2019.

• Focuses on Arab-municipality budgets, planning-status disputes, and electricity hookups in unpermitted Arab housing
• Previously chaired the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee
• Socially conservative in line with the Southern Islamic Movement: publicly opposed same-sex relationships as 'unnatural'
• Embraces Ra'am's pragmatic strategy of coalition leverage and integration within Israel's democratic system rather than perpetual opposition
• Pushes regularization of unrecognized Arab and Bedouin housing within Israel's planning framework
• In January 2026 his party agreed to revive the Joint List for the upcoming election while preserving Ra'am's independent post-vote operation

Ra'am (United Arab List) MK and Bedouin politician from the Negev elected in 2022, working within Israel's democratic system on integration and services for southern Arab communities.

• Seeks recognition and regulated planning solutions for Bedouin villages in the Negev
• Highlighted the need for more bomb shelters in Bedouin towns after Hamas's October 7 attack killed 21 Bedouin Israelis and saw six taken hostage to Gaza
• Pushed to expand legal building options for Bedouin families in the south
• Voted in favor of establishing a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attacks
• Advocates equal protection and infrastructure investment for Negev Arab citizens of Israel

Arraba-born social worker based in Yafa an-Naseriyye who in 2020 became the first hijab-wearing woman elected to the Knesset, representing Ra'am.

• Social worker who in 2020 became the first hijab-wearing woman elected to the Knesset, representing Ra'am (United Arab List)
• Focuses on women's rights, education and welfare in Arab society
• Sanctioned by the Knesset Ethics Committee in November 2023 with a one-month suspension and two-week pay freeze after telling the Knesset Channel that Hamas attackers on Oct 7 'didn't slaughter babies and didn't rape women', claims contradicted by extensive evidence; Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas called on her to resign, and she later apologized
• Represents the Southern Islamic Movement's conservative-religious base
• Advocates greater representation of Arab women in Israeli public life

Bedouin geneticist (PhD Hebrew University, post-doctoral cancer genetics research at the Technion) and former head of the Bir al-Maksur local council, elected to the Knesset in 2022 with Ra'am.

• Promotes science, technology and R&D investment in Arab and Bedouin localities
• Advocates Bedouin municipal recognition and infrastructure within Israel's framework
• Took over Science and Technology Committee from Ayman Odeh in January 2025
• Champions integrating Arab and Bedouin citizens into Israel's world-leading high-tech economy

Haifa-born lawyer and outgoing leader of the Jewish-Arab communist party Hadash, replaced as chairman by Yousef Jabareen in May 2026.

• Haifa-born lawyer and long-time activist in the communist Hadash party
• Led Hadash from 2015 and headed the Joint List of Arab parties from 2015 until its breakup in 2022
• Announced in 2023 he would not seek reelection; replaced as Hadash chair by former MK Yousef Jabareen in May 2026
• Advocates a Palestinian state on the indefensible pre-1967 armistice lines with parts of Jerusalem as its capital, and is one of the sharpest Knesset critics of IDF operations in Gaza and of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
• Drew condemnation across the political spectrum in January 2025 for a post equating released Israeli hostages with released Palestinian security prisoners, and again in May 2025 for declaring at a Haifa protest that 'Gaza has won and Gaza will win'
• Survived a July 14, 2025 Knesset expulsion vote when only 73 of the 90 required MKs voted to remove him over those statements

Physician and former adviser to Yasser Arafat; one of the Knesset's longest-serving Arab MKs and a persistent critic of the Jewish state.

• Physician by training (gynaecology), trained at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Served as a political adviser to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (1993-1999) and spokesman for the Palestinian delegation at the 1998 Wye River talks
• Founded the Arab Movement for Change (Ta'al) in 1996; in the Knesset since 1999, one of its longest-serving Arab MKs; served as Deputy Speaker 2006-2013
• Long-time advocate of 'state of all its citizens' framing aimed at dismantling Israel's Jewish character, demanding Palestinian statehood and repeal of the Nation-State Law and Law of Return
• Has characterized Israeli self-defense operations in Gaza as 'war crimes' and 'genocide' in international forums, echoing Hamas talking points; routinely refuses moments of silence for Israeli terror victims
• In January 2026 signed a preliminary agreement with Hadash, Balad, and other Arab factions to reunite into a Joint List ahead of the next Knesset elections

Nazareth-born Christian-Arab journalist and longtime Communist activist who founded Women Against Violence in 1992 and has served in the Knesset for Hadash since 2015.

• Founded Women Against Violence in 1992 and has used her Knesset platform to advance women's rights, gender-violence and honor-crime legislation
• In the Knesset since 2015 as a senior figure in the anti-Zionist Hadash (Communist) party
• Sharp critic of IDF operations against Hamas in Gaza and of Israeli policy in Judea and Samaria, regularly echoing Palestinian narratives
• Suspended by the Knesset Ethics Committee in November 2023 for two months and docked salary after a social-media post accusing the IDF of a 'war crime' at al-Shifa Hospital during Israel's defensive war against Hamas
• Opposes the Abraham Accords; announced in 2026 she will not seek re-election, declaring the Knesset embodies 'Jewish supremacy', a framing Israel's democratic institutions and Arab citizens' full voting and civil rights plainly refute

Marxist political philosopher and former Hebrew University lecturer; the only Jewish MK in the Hadash-Ta'al list, repeatedly sanctioned by the Knesset for inflammatory anti-IDF rhetoric during wartime.

• Marxist/communist political theorist; former Hebrew University lecturer in political theory
• Only Jewish MK in the Hadash-Ta'al list; re-elected to the No. 3 slot in Hadash's May 2026 primary
• Suspended 45 days by the Knesset Ethics Committee in October 2023 after comparing Israel's response to the October 7 massacre to Nazi policy, just days into the war
• Personally endorsed South Africa's ICJ case accusing Israel of genocide in January 2024; survived a February 2024 expulsion vote that fell short of the 90-MK supermajority (85 voted to expel)
• Suspended six months by the Knesset Ethics Committee in November 2024 for repeated attacks on IDF soldiers and his backing of the ICJ petition; suspended a further two months in late 2025 for continued wartime incitement against Israeli forces
• Ejected from the Knesset chamber alongside Ayman Odeh during President Trump's October 2025 address after waving a 'Recognize Palestine' sign and shouting at the visiting US president
• Routinely labels the elected Israeli government 'fascist' and the Gaza war 'genocide' in foreign media, and lobbies foreign capitals for sanctions on Israeli ministers
• Advocates full Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, dismantling Jewish communities there, a binational framework in place of the Jewish state's current character, and democratic-socialist economics

Professor at Hebron University (a Palestinian institution in Judea) who entered the Knesset on 23 June 2025, replacing Hadash MK Youssef Atauna under a Hadash-Ta'al rotation agreement.

• Aligned with Ta'al's platform under Ahmad Tibi, which frequently clashes with the Zionist consensus
• Advocates a Palestinian state and opposes Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria
• Promotes academic and educational investment in Arab Israeli society
• Calls for increased state funding to Arab-majority municipalities