Ami Chai La'ad (registered party that submitted the Amcha Yisrael list)

• Formal commitment: One of the "ten first steps" in the founding document is a move to lower the cost of living "by breaking up centers of concentration and monopoly power, opening the markets to real competition, and removing import barriers and unnecessary regulation", in order to "return power from the concentrated systems to the Israeli consumer" ^[2].
• Formal commitment: The economic chapter says the party will "strive for a free market and the breaking of monopolies", remove regulatory and bureaucratic barriers holding back small and medium businesses, and reward work, service and contribution "through tax benefits" and incentives for businesses that employ and reward people who serve ^[2].
• No statements were found on VAT or income-tax cuts in general, price controls, or raising welfare allowances or the minimum wage.

Closest option(s): Open the market to more competition, cut import barriers and red tape, and break up dominant companies (open-market-competition-imports).

• Formal commitment: The founding document says a strong state "does not allow crime organizations or criminal elements to create spaces where the state does not govern". It promises to strengthen enforcement and punishment, "with an emphasis on protection rackets, illegal weapons and arms smuggling", and to set up "a national coordinating body for the fight against crime that will combine intelligence, enforcement and economic sanctions under one picture" ^[2]. Its "ten first steps" include passing "the legislative package against crime organizations, after which a national enforcement operation will begin" ^[2]. These commitments apply to crime nationally, not only in Arab communities.
• Statement: At the launch, Winter spoke of fighting organized crime and protection rackets "in the Negev and the Galilee" and of strengthening the partnership between Jews and Arabs ^{[14, 8]}.
• Statement: Yoseph Haddad has said that responsibility for crime in Arab society lies with three actors: the state, the police and Arab community leaders ^[31]. On 2 September 2026 he said fighting crime in Arab communities would be one of his priorities ^[18].
• Statement: At a press conference on 5 October 2026 Winter also warned about "nationalist Bedouins who are arming themselves as if they were preparing for war" ^[46].
• No statement was found on the July 2026 government plan to involve the Shin Bet in fighting crime organizations, on holding suspects without trial, or on the five-year development plan for Arab communities.

Closest option(s): Tentative. The evidence points to tougher enforcement and a new anti-crime law package, but does not say whether the party supports Shin Bet involvement or special detention powers, so no single option can be chosen. It sits between emergency-powers-shin-bet and more-police-resources-normal-law, and gives no support to putting investment in Arab communities first (invest-in-arab-communities-first).

• Formal commitment: The founding document's security doctrine rests on "quick decisive victory, exacting a territorial price from the enemy, initiative and the continuous removal of capabilities" ^[2]. On Gaza it says: "We will demand to lead a plan for voluntary emigration for those who wish to leave the Strip and rebuild their lives, and we will act within international agreements and in cooperation with countries that agree to absorb migrants" ^[2]. The first of its "ten first steps" is to receive "all the powers to lead the voluntary emigration of the populations of the Gaza Strip residents" ^[2].
• Statement: At the launch on 25 August 2026, Winter said: "There will never be a Palestinian state here. There is one solution in Gaza: migration," and that "an enemy that launches a war against Israel will pay a heavy territorial price" ^{[10, 11]}. He also said: "We won't end a war while the enemy has the ability to recover… An enemy that opens a war against Israel will never return to the situation it was in on the eve of the war" ^[9].
• Statement: In a Channel 12 interview reported on 4 October 2026, Winter called mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza "in the national interest" and backed Jewish settlement in Gaza afterwards ^[39]. At a public event in Tel Aviv on 5 October 2026 he said Israel should "destroy Hamas and facilitate voluntary emigration from Gaza" and that "Trump gave us the OK". He said then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had asked him to prepare a plan, which the government did not take forward: providing food and aid in the parts of Gaza Israel controls, drawing the population out of the Hamas-controlled zone, and letting Gazans who wish to leave do so ^[51]. He has also described his plan as including a siege and separating civilians from Hamas, and said "our soldiers come before enemy civilians" ^[27].
• Statement: Winter opposes the continued entry of aid trucks into Gaza. He cited "the entry of hundreds of aid trucks into Gaza" among the government's failures in August 2026 ^[16] and said on 4 October 2026: "no trucks will enter Gaza" ^{[42, 43]}. On 16 September 2026 he said Defense Minister Israel Katz had asked him to set up an emigration directorate, that he had demanded real powers and presented a detailed plan, and that no emigration had been carried out ^[26].
• Statement: In a July 2024 article, Winter wrote that Israel "must achieve a clear and decisive outcome in Gaza" and called for removing Hamas's ability to govern, not only its military capabilities ^[59].
• Statement: On 29 September 2026, after the prime minister and defense minister warned of possible attacks, Winter said: "Enough containment, enough rounds… Take them apart now, don't wait… We will empty the pool and bring about emigration, we will bring a decision" ^[36]. On 23 September 2026 he told Katz: "Stop making threats if you don't intend to follow through" ^[29].
• Statement (his own account of his October 2023 advice): In September 2026, responding to a Channel 12 report about advice he gave the prime minister after 7 October 2023, Winter said he had proposed "a powerful, short and smart war that leads to a decisive victory, and not to a three-year campaign without any resolution" ^[23]. The party says he pushed "to push the Gazan population southward and impose a smart siege" rather than "raid after raid" ^[28]. The Channel 12 report itself rested on one unnamed former official and Winter disputed its details, so its account is not used here; no official record of what was proposed has been published ^[23].

Closest option(s): Go back to war and take control of all of Gaza, encourage residents to leave voluntarily, and allow Israeli communities to be rebuilt in Gaza (resume-fighting-full-control).

• Formal commitment: The founding document says "everyone will be partners in the circle of responsibility and contribution — in military service for those suited to it, and meaningful national service for those who cannot serve in the IDF… no one will stand outside the circle of shared commitment" ^[2]. It promises "differential rewards" by type, length and risk of service: "Whoever gives more will receive much more" ^[2]. It recognizes Torah study as "a foundational value" and keeps "the option of unique tracks for Torah excellence", but says shared service "will be the rule and not the exception" ^[2].
• Formal commitment: The second of its "ten first steps" is to pass a "Basic Law: Service" (a law with constitutional status) under which every citizen serves the state, to set up a service administration, and to build a screening system for outstanding students, "including the parameters for objectively examining quotas of Torah learners" ^[2].
• Statement (coalition condition): On 2 September 2026 Winter said: "We will not enter a government that does not pass, before it is formed, a law that puts an end to [non-enlistment] and requires everyone to report and contribute… Not a promise, not a clause in a coalition agreement, and not 'after we form a government'" ^{[17, 20]}. He also said: "We intend to bring about the integration of the Haredi public into the IDF without compromises and without delays" ^{[19, 21]}.
• Statement: On 27 August 2026 he said Haredim "will be integrated into the IDF, with or without Haredi political activists" ^[15]. On 7 September 2026, replying to Agudat Yisrael leader Yitzhak Goldknopf's demand for a full exemption for yeshiva students, he said "not everyone who wears black and white studies Torah", that the current situation "harms first and foremost the true Torah students", and that "those who do not serve, do not study and do not contribute will not enjoy benefits" ^[24].
• Statement: In September 2026 he said his plan includes greater benefits for those who serve, Defense Ministry oversight of yeshivas, and religious accommodations for Haredi soldiers ^[27]. In August 2026 Haredi protesters confronted him after he spoke at a Jerusalem conference for young Haredi men interested in military service ^[61].
• Statement: In a Channel 12 interview reported on 4 October 2026 he said he would still sit in a coalition with Haredi parties such as United Torah Judaism, and said his party would effectively hold a veto, as the Haredi parties do ^[39]. See Coalition stance.

Closest option(s): Require everyone, including Haredim, to serve in the army or civilian national service, with exemptions only for a limited number of outstanding Torah scholars, and cut benefits for those who refuse (universal-service-with-sanctions).

• Formal commitment: The economic chapter, titled "Economy, cost of living and housing", promises to "expand urban renewal in cities and towns at the edges of the country, combining an increase in the housing supply with protection [bomb shelters] and strengthening of infrastructure" ^[2].
• Formal commitment: The chapter on border and priority areas promises employment through tax incentives, quality education, efficient transport and governance in these areas, "strong Jewish settlement in the border areas and in threatened areas", and more powers and resources for local authorities ^[2]. It says the state "will give priority to those who contribute to its security and national resilience, including through the allocation of land and benefits" that strengthen settlement and attract people to border areas ^[2].
• Formal commitment: The tenth of its "first steps" is to develop physical infrastructure, including energy and public transport ^[2].
• No statement was found on building permits or planning in central Israel, the Israel Land Authority, affordable rental housing, rent regulation or general mortgage assistance.

Closest option(s): Mainly invest in transport, jobs and urban renewal outside the center (develop-periphery-and-transport), with an element of direct help for those who served, through land and benefits (direct-help-for-buyers).

• Formal commitment: The founding document's security doctrine aims "to establish a reality in which our enemies lose the will to fight and the ability to arm, recover and threaten", and says Israel should no longer manage the conflict "from round to round" ^[2]. It calls for "quick decisive victory" partly so that reservists can be released quickly ^[2], and for "technological superiority and independence" ^[2]. It also calls for assertive public diplomacy to widen Israel's diplomatic and security freedom of action ^[2].
• Statement: At the launch Winter said: "We won't wait for the threat, we'll remove it. We won't end a war while the enemy has the ability to recover, we will deny it that… We will never again abandon the borders of our state" ^[9].
• Statement: In a June 2024 speech he asked "Who is this Hezbollah anyway?" and said of Hamas: "I'm not dismissive, but they can be taken apart" ^[57]. His June 2026 petition called for replacing "rounds of fighting" in Gaza and Lebanon with continuous offensive initiative aimed at a clear decision ^[60].
• Statement: Ynet's 8 September 2026 profile of possible defense ministers describes Winter as rejecting temporary truces as a substitute for military decision and demanding proactive operations against threats ^[25].
• Statement: Haddad says Israel should build ties with groups in Lebanon he says are "sick and tired of Hezbollah", and points to the UAE as a success story for outreach to the Arab world ^[30].
• No specific statement was found on the US–Iran talks, the Lebanon ceasefire arrangements, or handing areas in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese army.

Closest option(s): Keep attacking until the threats are removed, without interim deals (military-pressure-until-threats-removed). The mapping is tentative because the evidence is general security doctrine; no statement specific to the Iran talks or the Lebanon arrangements was found.

• Formal commitment: The founding document states that the security doctrine "rests first and foremost on faith in the justice of our path and that the land of the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel" ^[2]. It calls for "strong Jewish settlement in the border areas and in threatened areas" as "an inseparable part of establishing sovereignty" ^[2]. The founding document published on the party's website, as fetched for this research, does not itself contain a sentence on a Palestinian state ^[2].
• Statement (party's written answer): In answers to Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth published on 28 September 2026, the party said it supports establishing settlements "in Judea and Samaria and in all parts of the land", that the 7 October attack and the Gaza war proved that evacuating settlements is "an existential danger and not a solution", that "a Palestinian state will never be established alongside us", and that to end that idea "the state must deepen its hold on the land and apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and everywhere in the land". It said illegal Palestinian building in Area C must be demolished immediately, alongside carrying out the voluntary emigration plan, and that Israel should try to regularize every Israeli hold on the land while all citizens must obey the law ^[35].
• Statement: On 6 October 2026 the party told Arutz Sheva that it "firmly opposes a Palestinian state and supports applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria", and promised to expand settlements and farms and strengthen governance and enforcement in Area C. In two answers it did not say whether it would work to cancel the Oslo Accords or support settling the open areas in Areas A and B (the areas run by the Palestinian Authority) ^[53].
• Statement: Winter: "There will never be a Palestinian state here" (25 August 2026) ^[10] and "There will never be a Palestinian state here, ever" (4 October 2026) ^{[43, 44]}. On 5 October 2026, asked about his candidates' past views, he said "there is no Palestinian nation" and that the idea of a Palestinian state is meant "to destroy Israel" ^[51]. At a press conference on 5 October 2026 he warned of a possible massacre "in Judea and Samaria" if the current approach continues ^[46]. In September 2026 the party published a video that included a TV commentator's warning that "the next October 7 will come from Judea and Samaria" ^[32].
• Change over time: Two of the party's top five candidates have spoken in the past in favor of a Palestinian state or Palestinian self-determination. Yoseph Haddad said in an interview with the Al Arabiya channel that "the final solution is the State of Israel alongside the State of Palestine" ^[42]. Reports date the interview to 2021 or to "more than five years" before October 2026, and Haddad himself placed it in 2020 ^{[42, 48, 51]}. He says he changed his mind during the May 2021 riots in mixed cities (Operation Guardian of the Walls) and now opposes a Palestinian state ^{[42, 54]}. Channel 14 reported that Fleur Hassan-Nahoum said she supports the idea of Palestinian self-determination in a debate with former US diplomat Dennis Ross, while saying a Palestinian state is not on the agenda and that autonomy may be the answer, and that as Jerusalem deputy mayor she wrote in 2020 that "the ultimate goal of the 'Deal of the Century' is indeed two states" ^[44]. The debate was held in New York on 16 July 2024 by Open to Debate and the Council on Foreign Relations; Hassan-Nahoum argued the side that the two-state solution is no longer viable ^{[51, 69]}. The party says both candidates oppose a Palestinian state, and Winter said he was proud of "a person's ability to change his views in the right direction" and that "whoever did not change their views after October 7 is ignorant and foolish" ^{[43, 44]}. Winter also said the 2020 statement described President Donald Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" plan, which the Israeli government had supported ^[51].

Closest option(s): Apply Israeli sovereignty and expand settlements, with no Palestinian state (full-sovereignty). The party's written answers speak of applying sovereignty "in Judea and Samaria and everywhere in the land" ^[35], but it has not said what should happen to the Palestinian Authority, the Oslo Accords or Areas A and B ^[53].

• Formal commitment: The founding document calls for "checks and balances in the justice system, including a right of appeal on judicial decisions of the High Court of Justice through the establishment of a supreme court of appeal" ^[2]. It promises to "define in law the powers of the branches of government" and to build a justice system and prosecution that work "with transparency, measurement and accountability" ^[2].
• Formal commitment: The fourth of its "ten first steps" is to split the role of the attorney general into "an independent prosecutor general and legal advice to the government, which will help it advance its policy within the law", and to allow citizens and authorities a right of appeal on High Court of Justice decisions, "as is customary in the vast majority of legal systems" ^[2]. The party says a detailed plan "to restore trust in the justice system" will be published ^[2].
• Statement: At the launch Winter called for "significant change" in the justice system ^[8]. The party's No. 4, Eran Ben-Ari, focuses on "balance in the justice system" ^[4].
• No statement was found on the 2025 law on choosing judges, on the government's attempt to fire the attorney general, or on the Supreme Court's power to strike down laws.

Closest option(s): Give elected officials more power relative to the courts and the attorney general (continue-judicial-changes). The party's own proposals (a court of appeal over the High Court and splitting the attorney general's role) differ in detail from the changes passed since 2023, and its call to define each branch's powers in law also touches on a clear constitutional framework (broad-agreed-constitutional-framework).

• Formal commitment: The sixth of the party's "ten first steps" is to set up "an independent commission of inquiry into the October 7 massacre, which will be given all the powers of a state commission of inquiry, and alongside them the power to enforce its conclusions" ^[2].
• Formal commitment: On 5 October 2026 the party published a detailed proposal ^{[3, 47]}. Under it, any group of ten Knesset members could nominate a candidate to chair the inquiry. All 120 members would vote by secret ballot; the candidate with the most votes would chair it and the runner-up would be deputy chair. Both must be judges ^[3]. The party says this method, modelled on how the Knesset elects the President, ensures "the government does not appoint those who are supposed to investigate it" and that the inquiry is not "a distribution of appointments between political camps" ^[3].
• Formal commitment: The body would have nine members: the two judges; three professionals in security, intelligence and oversight; one representative chosen by the local authorities hit on 7 October; and three family representatives (of bereaved soldiers' families, bereaved civilians' families and hostages' families) ^[3]. It would have full powers to summon witnesses and demand documents, with no limit on whom or what it examines, including the government, the Knesset, the security services, intelligence and the justice system, and the lessons since the 2014 Gaza operation ^[3]. If the two judges disagree, the local authorities' representative decides. It would start within 60 days of the new government being sworn in and publish initial findings within six months ^[3].
• Statement: The party says that no commission having been set up is "a shared disgrace for both the coalition and the opposition" ^[47]. Winter said on 2 September 2026: "Whoever failed for three years to establish a commission of inquiry that would enjoy broad public trust… will not succeed in establishing one in the future either" ^[22]. Haddad has described the same model ^[31].

Closest option(s): A neutral method picks the members, such as judges elected by the Knesset in a secret vote, and the inquiry covers the government, the army and the legal system alike (commission-chosen-by-neutral-mechanism).

• Formal commitment: The founding document's first principle is "the Jewish nation-state": a state "whose identity is clear: Jewish, Zionist and sovereign. A state in which Judaism invites and does not coerce, shares and does not dictate", where disagreement takes place "around a shared table" with the understanding that "Judaism is a family and not a battlefield" ^[2]. It promises "unity that is not uniformity" ^[2]. In education, it calls for Jewish values, Zionism and civic responsibility alongside quality core studies, and says the party will not fund schools that teach "anti-Zionist" values or programs ^[2].
• Statement: Winter is religious, and the party's messaging uses Jewish and faith-based language ^{[7, 45]}. At the same time the party says most of its candidates are secular ^[12].
• No position was found on civil marriage, the Chief Rabbinate, conversion, public transport on Shabbat, or the July 2026 basic law on Torah study.

Closest option(s): Tentative: the evidence is too general to match one option firmly. The founding document's "invites and does not coerce" language does not fit enforcing Jewish religious law by statute (strengthen-jewish-character), and the party does not call for separating religion and state (separate-religion-and-state). The party's position appears to fall between keep-status-quo and more-choice-local-decisions, but it has not said which.

• Formal commitment: The party's central theme is changing Israel's security doctrine "from containment to decisive victory": quick decision, a territorial price from any enemy that attacks, initiative, continuous removal of enemy capabilities, and technological superiority and independence ^[2]. It says the state's "independence of decision is not up for debate and decisions on its fate are made in Jerusalem" ^[2].
• Statement: Winter blames a "conception" in the security establishment that dismissed warnings, and says: "If we do not substantially change our security doctrine, then October 7 will come again, from Judea and Samaria or from other borders" ^[9]. He says the "distorted conception" that "our soldiers come after enemy civilians" must change, and that he wants "to see generals stamping their feet like in the Six-Day War" ^[40]. At a press conference near Ben Gurion Airport on 5 October 2026, after a suspected attack on an Israel-bound flydubai flight, he said "the conception is still here in full" and that "whoever does not want to investigate will not want to fix" ^[46].

• Formal commitment: The party promises a "differential rewards" system based on the type, length and risk of service, so that combat soldiers, combat-support soldiers and reservists with long service "will be rewarded according to their contribution" ^[2]. It promises tax benefits for those who serve and incentives for businesses that employ them, and priority in land allocation and benefits for those who contribute to security ^[2]. It says a detailed plan for "regulating the status of those who serve" will be published ^[2].
• Statement: Winter: "The more you serve, the more you receive" ^[27]. Several candidates are reservists, and No. 9 Aviv Ezra heads a reservists' movement ^[4]. Winter's slogan is "we are determined to serve those who serve" ^[21].

• Formal commitment: The third of the "ten first steps" is "an initiating, national and professional international diplomacy and public-diplomacy system" that will tell "the Israeli story" and confront "rising antisemitism" ^[2].
• Statement: Haddad, the party's candidate for public diplomacy minister, proposes weekly press conferences in Hebrew, Arabic and English and direct engagement with foreign and Arabic-language media ^{[30, 31]}. The party wants to revive the Public Diplomacy Ministry with substantial funding ^[18]. Winter has promised "true public diplomacy for the State of Israel and not just a public diplomacy ministry" ^[15] and has spoken of making Israel "a home for all the Jews of the world" ^[14].

• Formal commitment: The founding document describes a state expressing the Jewish people's right to self-determination, "alongside a partnership of fate between those who serve from all sectors and full commitment to the security, dignity and rights of all its citizens" ^[2].
• Statement: At the launch Winter said the party seeks to include Arab citizens who support the state ^[8]. Haddad says Arab citizens need representatives "who represent them, not Gaza, Jenin and Ramallah" ^[11], says his "mission is to throw [the Arab parties] out of the Knesset", and prefers the word "partnership" to "coexistence" ^[31]. On 2 September 2026 he said he wants to strengthen Arab citizens' Israeli identity in schools ^[18]. Winter said in October 2026 that his party would encourage both Haredi and Arab high-school students to consider service ^[51].

• Formal commitment: The party calls strengthening border areas "a national and security goal" and promises tax incentives for employment, quality education, efficient transport and governance there ^[2]. It promises to give local authorities more powers and resources while keeping regulation and oversight with the central government ^[2], and to devolve the running of schools to local authorities and schools, while the Education Ministry keeps the core curriculum, regulation and measurement ^[2]. It says local government "proved its ability to deliver in a time of crisis" ^[2].

• Formal commitment: The party wants every child in Israel to receive quality core studies alongside Jewish, Zionist and civic values, to narrow gaps between the different school systems with a shared basic standard, and to teach "the full story of Israel's communities" ^[2]. It would give school principals more independence over hiring, staff and programs, with measured targets ^[2], and would not fund schools that teach anti-Zionist values or programs ^[2].

• Formal commitment: The party calls for a multi-year national plan for energy, water, transport, communications and ports, with clear targets ^[2]. It says computing power, data and computing infrastructure are national infrastructure in the age of artificial intelligence, and that Israel should control critical systems and build "sovereign national computing power" to avoid strategic dependence on foreign infrastructure ^[2].
• Formal commitment: It promises that every national task will get measurable targets, a timetable and one responsible minister, with a yearly public implementation report on what was and was not done ^[2].

• Formal commitment: "Sovereignty does not end at the edge of the community": the party promises to enforce the law everywhere and to demand transparency and accountability from elected officials ^[2].
• Statement: On 6 October 2026, after what he called "extremist Haredi rioters" broke into a building in Modi'in to prevent the arrest of a deserter, Winter attacked the coalition for not condemning it: "What a disgrace, what a loss of control" ^[49].