Yamina

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Yamina
ימינה‎
LeaderAyelet Shaked[1]
FoundersNaftali Bennett
Ayelet Shaked
Founded29 July 2019 (first time)
15 January 2020 (revival)
Dissolved10 October 2019 (first time)
15 November 2022 (second time)
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[2] to far-right[3][4]
National affiliationZionist Spirit (2022)
The Jewish Home (2022)
Member partiesNew Right
Former:
The Jewish Home (until 2020)
National Union (until 2021)
Colours    Blue
  Green (former)
Slogan
  • Naftali Bennett - There is Alternative Leadership
  • With Bennett This is Possible
Knesset
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Election symbol
טב‎ (2019–2021)
ב‎ (2021–2022)
ب‎ (2021–2022)

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Website
yemina.co.il (archive)

Yamina or Yemina (Hebrew: יָמִינָה; lit. 'rightwards')[6] was an Israeli political alliance of right-wing parties that originally included the New Right and the Union of Right-Wing Parties (a union of The Jewish Home and Tkuma).[7][8] The final incarnation of the alliance included only the New Right,[9] as The Jewish Home left the alliance on 14 July 2020,[10] and the Religious Zionist Party left on 20 January 2021.[11]

The list was created ahead of the September 2019 Israeli legislative election, in which Yamina secured seven seats in the Knesset.[12] The alliance was expected to split on 6 October, with the New Right as its own faction, while Tkuma and the Jewish Home will stay together, though the alliance continued to negotiate as a single bloc in the aftermath of the election.[13] The meeting on 6 October was postponed, with some citing disagreements on whether Yamina should split, while others referred to it as a "technical" matter.[14] The alliance did split on 10 October 2019,[15] and re-formed on 15 January 2020 in the run-up to the 2020 Israeli legislative election.[9]

  1. ^ Amit Segal & Daphna Liel (29 June 2022). "Naftali Bennett not to run in next elections, Shaked to head Yamina". N12/JPost. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Bennett, Shaked quit Jewish Home, announce formation of 'The New Right'". The Times of Israel. 29 December 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Israel's Netanyahu not admitting defeat as a new government coalition takes shape". Globe and Mail. 3 June 2021. Potential defections mean the "change" coalition, led by Naftali Bennett's far-right Yamina party and Yair Lapid's centrist Yesh Atid party
  4. ^ "Naftali Bennett: The right-wing millionaire who may end Netanyahu era". Reuters. 2 June 2021. Bennett, who leads the far-right Yamina party, said a fifth vote would be a national calamity
  5. ^ "ימינה בראשות נפתלי בנט". Central Election Committee for the Knesset (in Hebrew). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  6. ^ "United Right to run under name 'Yemina'". Arutz Sheva. 12 August 2019.
  7. ^ Jeremy Sharon (30 July 2019). "Right-wing parties form alliance to be led by Shaked". The Jerusalem Post.
  8. ^ Magid, Jacob. "Likud again pushing to get extremists into Knesset on far-right slate". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 31 July 2020. far-right Jewish Home and National Union factions
  9. ^ a b Staff writer (15 January 2020). "Bennett, Peretz, Smotrich agree to joint run without Ben Gvir". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  10. ^ Hezki Baruch (14 July 2020). "Jewish Home formally splits off from Yamina". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  11. ^ Hoffman, Gil (20 January 2021). "Bennett's Yamina party formally splits". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  12. ^ "95% of votes counted: 33 seats for Blue & White, 32 for Likud". The Jerusalem Post. 18 September 2019.
  13. ^ "Yamina to officially split on Sunday". The Jerusalem Post. 4 October 2019.
  14. ^ Jacob Magid (7 October 2019). "Ahead of Yamina split, Smotrich calls for religious slates to stick together". The Times of Israel.
  15. ^ Raoul Wootliff (10 October 2019). "Yamina party officially splits into New Right, Jewish Home-National Union". The Times of Israel.