National Union chairman Ya'akov Katz.

Party Chairman: National Union: Ya'akov Katz, The Jewish Home: Daniel Hershkovitz

Established: National Union: 1999, The Jewish Home: 2008

Current Knesset seats: 7 (4 for National Union, 3 for The Jewish Home)

Official Websites: www.leumi.org.il (National Union), www.111.org.il (The Jewish Home)

Official Knesset Profile: Ichud Leumi (National Union)

Two religious-Zionist parties that emerged from the split of the National Union-NRP, both The Jewish Home and the National Union reject the return of any of the Occupied Territories.

Both parties oppose the creation of a Palestinian state on territory between Israel and Jordan.

Instead, they promote active Jewish settlement of all the Occupied Territories, stricter measures to prevent Palestinian construction in occupied East Jerusalem, and programs to increase the immigration of Jews to Israel.


Key Party Members:

National Union


Yaakov Katz. Official Knesset Profile. Born in Jerusalem in 1951 to an Orthodox Jewish family, Yaakov Katz studied at the controversial Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, regarded as the ideological home of the West Bank settler movement, and remains an avid supporter of Israeli settlement in all of the territories occupied in 1967, even vowing to return an Israeli settler presence to the Gaza Strip. Read more.

The Jewish Home


Daniel Hershkowitz. Official Knesset Profile. A rabbi, professor and mathematician from Haifa, Daniel Hershkowitz only entered politics in 2008, when he was chosen to lead the newly established right-wing religious Zionist party The Jewish Home.

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