Habayit Hayehudi
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The Jewish Home
הבית היהודי |
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| Leader |
Daniel Hershkowitz (2008–2012) Naftali Bennett (2012–present) |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Preceded by | National Religious Party |
| Headquarters | Jerusalem |
| Ideology |
Religious Zionism Religious nationalism Religious conservatism Modern Orthodox interests One-state solution Settler interests Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| Religion | Orthodox Judaism (Modern Orthodox Judaism core constituency) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue, green |
| Knesset |
8 / 120
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| Most MKs | 12 (2013) |
| Election symbol | |
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Jewish Home (Hebrew: הַבַּיִת הַיְהוּדִי, HaBayit HaYehudi) is an Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, formed as the successor party to the National Religious Party.
It was originally formed by a merger of the National Religious Party, Moledet, and Tkuma in November 2008. However, Moledet broke away from the party after its top representative was placed only 17th on the new party's list for the 2009 Knesset elections and instead ran on a joint list with Hatikva called the National Union.Tkuma later also left to join the National Union.
For the 2013 elections, the Jewish Home and Tkuma parties ran a joint list under the leadership of the chairman of the Jewish Home; Naftali Bennett.
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.
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