Tag: Otzma Yehudit
Likud Party joins Otzma Yehudit to petition court to disqualify Joint Arab List
Members of the Likud and Otzma Yehudit parties submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice on Tuesday requesting that the Joint Arab List be barred from running in the upcoming elections on...
Otzma Yehudit breaks with Jewish Home
Far-right activist Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party is breaking ranks with the more mainstream, religious-Zionist Jewish Home party, Otzma Yehudit announced Tuesday.
In a letter to Jewish Home leader Rafi Peretz, party officials wrote: “Unfortunately,...
Supreme Court bans Otzma Yehudit candidate Ben-Ari from Israel’s April elections
Israel’s Supreme Court banned Otzma Yehudit candidate Michael Ben-Ari from running in the upcoming national elections—the first time Israel’s highest court has ever prevented a single individual from running in an Israeli election—in opposition...
The problem isn’t racism, it’s the electoral system
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s midwifing of a joint ticket that will bring a far-right extremist party into the Knesset was quickly superseded by new scandals. Yet the fundamental problem that prompted his move...
Pompeo on Israeli elections: US not getting ‘involved’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to comment on last week’s controversial merger between the Jewish Home and the far-right Otzma Yehudit parties ahead of the Israeli elections in April.
“We’re not about to...