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- This article is about the political party. For the concept of a Jewish homeland, see Homeland for the Jewish people
| The Jewish Home | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Naftali Bennett |
| Founded | 2008 (2008) |
| Headquarters | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Ideology | Religious Zionism Modern Orthodox minority politics |
| Political position | Right |
| International affiliation | Mizrachi |
| Colours | Blue, Green and Orange |
| Knesset | 12 / 120 |
| Election symbol | |
| טב | |
| Website | |
| http://baityehudi.org.il/ | |
The Jewish Home (Template:Lang-he, HaBayit HaYehudi) is a religious Zionist political party in Israel. It was originally formed by a merger of the National Religious Party, Moledet and Tkuma in November 2008. However, after its top representative was placed 17th on the new party's list, Moledet broke away from the party, and instead ran on a joint list with Hatikva called the National Union. Tkuma also rejoined the National Union whereas the Ahi faction have joined Likud. For the 19th Knesset Elections, The Jewish Home and Tkuma parties merged their lists under the leadership of the chairman of The Jewish Home, Naftali Bennett, while the other National Union members formed the Otzma LeYisrael party.
History
The National Religious Party and the National Union originally allied in order to run a joint list for the 2006 elections. On 3 November 2008 it was announced that the NRP and the Moledet and Tkuma factions of the Union would merge to form a new party. However, the Ahi and Hatikva factions of the Union rejected the merger – their leaders, Effi Eitam and Aryeh Eldad respectively, were both opposed to the party being a religious one, while Eitam was also unhappy that the new party would not hold primaries.
The party was initially nameless. Five names were proposed: HaBayit HaYehudi ("Jewish Home"), Shorashim ("Roots"), Atzma'ut ("Independence"), Shalem ("Whole"), and Amihai ("My Nation Lives"). In an on-line ballot, the members chose "Jewish Home".
Ya'akov Amidror was chosen to head a public committee formed to choose the party's list for the 2009 elections. On 8 December 2008 Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkovitz, a mathematician from the Technion, was chosen to head the new party.
When Jewish Home announced its candidate list for the upcoming elections, five of the top six slots went to ex-NRP members. MK Uri Ariel of Tkuma was the sole exception: he received the third slot. Polls then indicated Jewish Home would get five to seven seats, thus making the first six spaces highly contested. The ex-National Union members again complained. Ex-Moledet MK Benny Elon stated that he would not seek reelection and was replaced on the candidate list by American immigrant Uri Bank. The remaining Moledet members broke away and allied with Hatikva in a revived Union (Bank also later switched to the Union.)
On 25 December Tkuma MK Ariel left Jewish Home and joined the Union. This left Jewish Home as little more than a renamed NRP: The Jewish Home, the new National Religious Party.
In the 2009 election, Jewish Home won three seats.
In November 2012 the Jewish Home held separate primaries for leadership of the party. My Israel leader Naftali Bennett won over incumbent MK Zevulun Orlev, winning more than two thirds of the vote and Orlev announced he was resigning from politics. A week later, primaries for the remaining members of the list were held, and Nissan Slomiansky, Ayelet Shaked, and Uri Orbakh reached the top spots. With the National Union breaking up, Uri Ariel officially reunited Tkuma with the Jewish Home to run on a joint list in the 2013 Israeli elections.
Its new leader, the young and dynamic Bennett, has brought new energy to the party and siphoned many voters, including secular and moderate voters, away from other parties like Likud. The party has close ties to the settler movement in the West Bank and opposes the Oslo Accords. Bennett has proposed annexing Area C of the West Bank and granting Israeli citizenship to Palestinians there.
In the elections that were held on 22 January 2013 the Jewish Home won 12 seats.
Electoral list for the 2013 election
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1. Naftali Bennett |
11. Yoni Chetboun |
References
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- ^ Key parties in incoming Israeli parliament
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Ynetwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Selig, Abe (18 December 2008). "Moledet breaks from newly formed Bayit Hayehudi". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Right-wing parties unite Ynetnews, 3 November 2008
- Petition: Include Eldad and Marzel in New Religious Party Israel National News, 19 November 2008
- Eitam wants to join Likud Ynetnews, 3 November 2008
- "New Nationalist Party Named 'The Jewish Home", Israel National News, 19 November 2008.
- Wagner, Matthew (9 December 2008). "Habayit Hayehudi opts for Hershkowitz". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- Wagner, Matthew (25 December 2008). "National Union splits from Habayit Hayehudi". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- "Israel National News". Israel National News. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- Israeli Election Primer - What You Should Know