The New Right הימין החדש | |
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| Leader | Naftali Bennett[1] |
| Founded | 29 December 2018 |
| Split from | The Jewish Home |
| Ideology | Zionism[2][3] National conservatism[4][5] Economic liberalism[2][4] Judicial restraint[6] Factions: Religious Zionism[7] Secularism[2] |
| Political position | Right-wing[7][8] tofar-right[9] |
| National affiliation | Yamina[10] (2019;[11] 2020–2022)[12][13] The Jewish Home (2022) |
| Slogan | Right Wing. Responsibly. |
| Knesset | 0 / 120 |
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TheNew Right (Hebrew:הימין החדש,HaYamin HeHadash) is aright-wing political party inIsrael, established in December 2018 byAyelet Shaked andNaftali Bennett. The New Right aims to be a right-wing party open to bothreligious andsecular people. The party did not win any seats in theApril 2019 election, though it won three seats in the subsequent election ofSeptember 2019,[11] retained these in theMarch 2020 election and increased to seven seats in the2021 Israeli legislative election.
The party was formed in December 2018, whenNaftali Bennett,Ayelet Shaked, andShuli Mualem leftthe Jewish Home,[7][14] using the registration of the unusedTzalash party. The party's legal name remains Tzalash, though it was restyled as an abbreviation forTzion LeShevah (anIDF citation), rather than the previousTziyonut Liberaliyut Shivyon (Zionism, Liberalism, Equality) of the original Tzalash[15] butTziyonut Liberaliyut Shivyon is still the legal name of the party.[16] Among the reasons given for the split was the purely religious nature of the Jewish Home.[17][18]
On 2 January 2019, it was announced thatCaroline Glick, a columnist atThe Jerusalem Post, had joined the party.[19] Deaf rights activistShirly Pinto joined the party on 8 January 2019;[20] Shaked stated that Pinto would be an "effective advocate for the rights of people with disabilities".[21] In the September 2019 election, it joined theYamina alliance, alongside the Jewish Home andTkuma.[10][22] The alliance officially split into two factions (the New Right, and the Jewish Home/Tkuma) on 10 October.[11] The New Right also unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate an alliance withZehut.[23] On 8 November, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu announced that the New Right would be merging with his rulingLikud party,[24] though Shaked rebutted the idea the next day.[25]
Prior to the2020 Israeli legislative election, the New Right entered talks with theNew Liberal Party for an electoral alliance.[26] Bennett subsequently approached Zehut leaderMoshe Feiglin for an alliance, although Feiglin declined the offer.[27] On 14 January 2020, the New Right announced it had formed an electoral alliance with Tkuma.[28] The party reformed the Yamina alliance on 15 January, with The Jewish Home and Tkuma again joining.[13] Bennett rejected the prospect of expanding the alliance to includeOtzma Yehudit, despite pressure from Netanyahu.[29] On 22 April, it was reported that Bennett was now "considering all options" for Yamina's political future, including departing from Netanyahu's government, which had just agreed to form a joint government with leader of the opposition Blue and White partyBenny Gantz, and joining the opposition. Bennett was said to be unhappy with the new coalition government's decision to hold back on the issue ofjudicial reform.[30] On 14 May,The Jewish Home's only Knesset member,Rafi Peretz ended his status as a member of Yamina, and agreed to join Netanyahu's new government as well.[31][32] On 15 May, the New Right, along with Tkuma, split with Netanyahu and made the Yamina alliance a member of the opposition. On 17 May, Bennett met with Gantz, who also succeeded him as Defence Minister, and declared that both Yamina parties were now "head held high" members of the opposition.[33]
On 9 May 2021, it was reported that Bennett andYesh Atid leaderYair Lapid had made major headway in the coalition talks for forming a new Israeli government.[34][35] On 30 May, going against their constituents' will,[36] all but one Yamina MK agreed to back joining a coalition government with Lapid.[37]
The New Right platform, as detailed by its website, is:[2]
Ayelet Shaked said the party would work to arrangereligious andsecular relations on the basis of mutual understanding and an updated version of theGavison-Medan Covenant.[38]
| Leader | Took office | Left office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naftali Bennett | 2018 | Incumbent[1] | ||
| Year | Members | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Naftali Bennett,Ayelet Shaked,Shuli Mualem | 3 |
| 2019–2020 | Ayelet Shaked, Naftali Bennett,Matan Kahana | 3 |
| 2020–2021 | Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, Matan Kahana | 3 |
| 2021–2022 | Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, Matan Kahana,Amichai Chikli,Nir Orbach,Abir Kara,Idit Silman,Yomtob Kalfon,Orna Starkmann | 9 |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Naftali Bennett | 138,598 | 3.22% | 0 / 120 |  3 | Extraparliamentary |
| September 2019 | Ayelet Shaked(lead candidate) | As part ofYamina | 3 / 120 |  3 | Snap election | |
| 2020 | Naftali Bennett | As part ofYamina | 3 / 120 |  0 | Opposition | |
| 2021 | Naftali Bennett | 273,836 | 6.21% | 7 / 120 | 4 | Coalition |
| 2022 | Ayelet Shaked(lead candidate) | As part ofThe Jewish Home | 0 / 120 | 7 | Extraparliamentary | |
The far-right Israeli politician Naftali Bennett will be the country's next prime minister under a proposed power-sharing deal intended to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the opposition has confirmed.
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