Religious Zionism–Zehut
HaTzionut HaDatit–Zehut
Led by Bezalel Smotrich (running jointly with Zehut, led by Moshe Feiglin)
Order confirmed by the partyLast updated 08.09.2026
What is a surplus vote agreement?
A surplus vote agreement allows two parties to combine their remaining votes when additional Knesset seats are allocated after the election.
The parties still run separately, and the agreement does not directly transfer votes from one party to the other.
Source: C14 · 08.09.2026About Religious Zionism–Zehut ahead of the 2026 election, including the candidate list, the component parties' platforms, poll standing and sources.
Poll standing
How is a party's poll standing determined?
This status is calculated automatically from the latest polls shown on this site — one per outlet we track. We check how many of them report the party crossing the electoral threshold (rather than assuming this from the seat count alone), and also show the range and average of its projected seats in those same polls. Polls reflect a snapshot at the time they were published and are not a forecast of the election result.
Last updated: 21.10.2026
Consistently above the electoral threshold
Crosses the threshold in all 5 recent polls
What is the electoral threshold?
The electoral threshold is the minimum share of the vote a list needs in order to take part in the allocation of Knesset seats. In Knesset elections the threshold is 3.25% of valid votes. A list that does not pass the threshold does not take part in the seat allocation.
Source: Knesset website – glossaryAverage 6.8 seats · Recent range: 6–8
How many votes are needed for one seat?
There is no fixed number of votes per seat. The number of votes needed changes in every election, depending on the number of valid votes and on which parties pass the electoral threshold. The final allocation of seats is made using the Bader–Ofer method.
Source: Israel Democracy InstituteWomen's representation per this poll
Based on the current poll, the first 7 candidates on the list are projected to enter the Knesset, 1 of them women.
- Orit StrockPosition 3
Recent trend:Rising
Standing by poll
This status is calculated automatically from the latest polls shown on this site — one per outlet we track. We check how many of them report the party crossing the electoral threshold (rather than assuming this from the seat count alone), and also show the range and average of its projected seats in those same polls. Polls reflect a snapshot at the time they were published and are not a forecast of the election result.
Component Parties' Platforms
Positions from the separate platforms published by the parties that make up the list, until a joint platform is published.
No unified platform published yet
Religious Zionism and Zehut published separate platforms before joining forces. Until a unified platform is published, we show each party's positions separately.
Recruitment and service
2 platforms publishedReligious Zionism
Supports significantly expanding Haredi recruitment through adapted service frameworks and a wider circle of servicemembers, more efficient use of the IDF reserves, and preference and benefits for servicemembers. The published program does not set a numerical Haredi recruitment target.
SourceZehut
Opposes a mandatory-conscription model based on "artificial equality," and supports service based on identity, purpose, and free choice for young Jews — which the platform argues secures both military strength and social resilience.
SourceSecurity and foreign policy
Zehut
Advocates for a decisive military and political resolution rather than "managing rounds" of conflict: full Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, permanently ruling out a Palestinian state, and offering residents of the area only three options — permanent residency, rare citizenship for those proving full loyalty, or emigration in exchange for compensation. Also supports political/security independence from the US, Europe, and the UN.
SourceCrime and Personal Security
2 platforms publishedReligious Zionism
In its "Judaizing the Negev and the Galilee" plan, Religious Zionism proposes a national temporary order to fight organized crime, including emergency legislation, defining possession of illegal weapons as terror, and bringing in the Shin Bet. What is stated here comes from the Negev and Galilee plan only.
SourceZehut
Defining protection rackets, nationalist crime and hostile takeover as terror, full governance in the Negev, the Galilee and the mixed cities, and expanding the right of the law-abiding citizen to carry a weapon for self-defense.
SourceEconomy and cost of living
Zehut
A free economy: a broad tax cut with simple, transparent taxation, dramatically simplifying bureaucracy and business regulation, dismantling monopolies and import barriers, and opening the market to free competition — to lower the cost of living.
SourceJudiciary and governance
2 platforms publishedReligious Zionism
Supports increasing elected officials' influence over judicial appointments, restricting the Supreme Court's power to strike down laws, and a regular-majority override clause. Also proposes splitting the attorney general's role, making legal advice to the government non-binding, and abolishing the reasonableness standard for government and ministerial decisions.
SourceZehut
Limited government and decentralizing power from the state to the citizen: a constitution protecting individual liberty, genuine separation of powers, and direct public election of Supreme Court justices — so the judiciary judges according to law rather than deciding policy in place of elected officials.
SourceEducation
2 platforms publishedReligious Zionism
Religious Zionism proposes abolishing registration zones so parents can choose a school, moving about 80% of decision-making powers to principals and education staff, and raising teachers' pay by about 30% through personal contracts, alongside strengthening vocational education and core studies that include Jewish and national identity.
SourceZehut
Full freedom of choice in education: a voucher that transfers public funding to parents to choose their child's school, and breaking the Ministry of Education's monopoly on the school system.
SourceHealth
Zehut
Opposes a public health system the platform describes as "captive" to pharmaceutical companies and the World Health Organization (which the platform accuses of collaborating with Hamas), and supports opening free competition between health funds and insurance companies instead.
SourceHousing
2 platforms publishedReligious Zionism
Housing priority and benefits for reservists and their spouses, and affordable housing and development subsidies for young families who move to the Negev and the Galilee. What is stated here comes from the reservists' and the Negev and Galilee plans, not from a dedicated housing plan.
SourceZehut
The housing solution is expanding supply: dissolving the Israel Land Authority and allocating state land by lottery to every Jewish family for free construction, abolishing the purchase tax and building levies, and shortening planning procedures — including large-scale construction in Judea and Samaria, the Negev, and the Galilee.
SourceSociety and welfare
Zehut
Seeks to shift the social safety net from centralized government welfare to a model based on communities and private nonprofits, and the platform states that National Insurance should stop serving as a channel funding non-Jewish communities it describes as hostile to the State of Israel.
SourceRegional Development & Periphery
Religious Zionism
The "Judaizing the Negev and the Galilee" plan: removing planning barriers, rapidly settling 20 new communities in the Galilee and 20 in the Negev, and a goal of a million more Jewish residents in the Negev and the Galilee through an incentives plan for target populations.
SourceAliyah & Integration
Religious Zionism
The "Judaizing the Negev and the Galilee" plan proposes a dedicated absorption and settlement track for new immigrants in the Negev and the Galilee. What is stated here comes from the Negev and Galilee plan only.
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Candidate list for the 2026 election: Religious Zionism–Zehut
Order confirmed by the partyLast updated 08.09.2026Source: Ynet, "The Religious Zionism and Feiglin list — and the MKs who were pushed out" (Sept. 8, 2026)
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ⓘ For sitting MKs, legislation data covers the 25th Knesset only; for those no longer serving, it covers their full Knesset tenure
Women in the top 10: 3 out of 10
Sources
The main sources behind this party's information, grouped by data type.
- PlatformsReligious Zionism's "Law and Justice" plan (digital edition)
- Candidate rosterSource: Ynet, "The Religious Zionism and Feiglin list — and the MKs who were pushed out" (Sept. 8, 2026)
- Legislation dataKnesset National Legislation DB (accessed via Open Knesset, the Public Knowledge Workshop)
- Voting participation dataKnesset Plenum Voting DB (accessed via zmanknesset.co.il)
Information here is based on official sources — it isn't a recommendation for who to vote for.