Lema'an Achai – Party of All Israel (registered party that submitted the Haredi Public list)

Formal commitment: The party's platform has a chapter called "Our Economy" that begins: "We are on the economic right: a free market, competition, and low taxes. We will work to lower the cost of living" ^[11]. The platform lists these steps ^[11]:

• Remove unnecessary tariffs, import quotas and other barriers, and recognise the standards of developed countries.
• Replace the requirement that importers pay VAT in cash before selling goods with an accounting entry in their periodic VAT returns.
• Open the car market through parallel imports (cars imported outside the official importer's network) and easier import of spare parts.
• Privatise the Port of Ashdod and let all ports compete.
• Abolish the powers of the agricultural production and marketing boards.
• Simplify and reduce taxes, supporting a "simple, flat, and transparent tax system" and lowering capital gains tax to 20 percent.
• Reduce regulation and merge duplicate government activities, and adjust the public-sector workforce gradually to changing needs, mainly through natural turnover, abolition of tenure and open recruitment.
• Make welfare benefits, service subsidies and municipal property tax (arnona) discounts depend on "full use of the recipient's earning capacity," with exceptions for people who cannot work.

The platform also says people who cannot support themselves "will have a safety net that does not perpetuate dependence and poverty" ^[11]. It states that the party wants to raise Haredi earning power and gradually change the child-benefit system, while examining more targeted support ^[11].

Statement: On 25 August 2026 the party's campaign described its economic line as "opportunities for a dignified livelihood instead of dependence on benefits" ^[18].

No Knesset votes exist for this party. The platform is the main evidence.

Closest option(s): Open the market to more competition by easing imports and cutting red tape (open-market-competition-imports), with the platform also matching cutting taxes and government spending (cut-taxes-and-government-spending). The platform does not call for price supervision or direct benefit increases.

No documented position found. Searches covered the party's platform chapters and "Who We Are" page ^[2–12], its campaign timeline and campaign updates ^{[18, 38–40]}, interviews with the leader and with Dr. Yaffe ^{[19, 21, 26, 29]}, and Hebrew and English news coverage, including Haredi outlets, for the leader's and the party's statements on crime, policing, or Arab communities ^{[20–33, 37]}. None of these addresses the issue.

No documented position found. The party's platform has nine chapters on Haredi community concerns and does not address Gaza ^[2–11]. Searches covered the party's site, campaign updates and interviews, and Hebrew and English news coverage, for statements from the leader or candidates on the war, the ceasefire or Hamas ^{[18, 19, 21, 26, 29]}. The only related item is from Dr. Yaffe, who said on 27 September 2026 that 7 October 2023 changed her thinking, that "we face a cruel and bloodthirsty enemy, and we simply need to fight", and that peace "needs to look different". She did not give a policy position on Gaza ^[26].

This is the party's central issue. In summary, the party supports a law that lets full-time Torah students keep studying, without arrest or penalties. It also says everyone who is not a full-time Torah student should be required to serve in the IDF, in other security bodies or in civilian national service, through tracks adapted to Haredi life. The party opposes sanctions as a way to bring this about.

• Formal commitment: The platform's chapter "Charedi Service" says: "Every individual that does not devote his life completely to Torah study will be required to serve in some capacity, alongside the rest of Israeli youth. Appropriate and varied tracks will be established" ^[4]. The chapter "The Torah World" says that "anyone who is genuinely committed to Torah and dedicates his life in practice to full-time study must be able to learn with dignity, without having to fear arrest or any other interference." It calls this "a fundamental and non-negotiable condition for any cooperation" between the party's representatives and the governing authorities on the issue ^[3].
• Formal commitment: The service chapter lists the following steps ^[4]. All frameworks would be adapted to Haredi life and run under the guidance of an experienced rabbinic team. The government would give broad support to Haredi hesder yeshivas. Mandatory-service tracks would be created in additional security bodies, including the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Mossad and the police. National and civilian service would be developed in emergency organizations such as municipal security teams, ZAKA and United Hatzalah. The administration that assists Haredi soldiers would be expanded, and an organization would be set up for Haredi reservist families. Haredi communities and hesder yeshivas would be advanced in the eastern border regions.
• Formal commitment: The party site answers "Will young men who are not learning serve in secular frameworks?" with "Absolutely not", saying service must be possible "without compromising on a single clause of the Shulchan Aruch" (the code of Jewish law) ^[2].
• Statement: In an interview published on 13 August 2026, Litner said a young man "genuinely dedicated to full-time Torah study should receive a real legal exemption – not a temporary political arrangement that will collapse in court", and that those who are not learning full time should contribute to the country's defense or to national service ^[29].
• Statement: In an interview published on 14 August 2026, Litner said some men who study full-time should be able to continue, but "the large majority" should serve in the army or in national service. He said that "the way to protect the one who sits and studies in yeshiva is for them to take responsibility" ^[21].
• Statement: The same interview and the 2 September 2026 interview state the party's opposition to sanctions. The Jerusalem Post reports Litner as saying that freezing state funding and threatening arrests would have the opposite effect on enlistment, and that "positive incentives have very great power" ^[21]. On 2 September he said the party would strengthen and expand all current service tracks, including raising the number of students in the 14 Haredi hesder yeshivas from 1,000 to 5,000, and that for full-time Torah students it "removes all the sanctions" ^[19].
• Statement: On 28 September 2026 Litner wrote that "whoever does not study must serve, and there are thousands like that", calling their enlistment a national security need. He said the party would not settle for a Haredi brigade and would work to establish a Haredi division, "while preserving the Torah world" ^[39].
• Statement: Dr. Yaffe, the third candidate, said in a Channel 7 interview on 27 September 2026 that the first issue she would deal with in the Knesset is the enlistment law, and that the solution is "those who study, study, and those who do not, enlist" ^[26].
• Statement: At the party's launch on 19 July 2026, the campaign named "persecution of Torah scholars" (the party's wording) among its three main concerns, together with poverty and dropout ^{[20, 32]}.

The party has no Knesset votes on this issue. For context, the outgoing Knesset passed Basic Law: Torah Study on 13 July 2026, by 63 votes to 52, stating that "Torah study is a core value in the heritage of the Jewish people and the State of Israel" ^[35]. On 14 July 2026 it passed, by 58 votes to 54, a temporary law freezing arrests of yeshiva students who have not enlisted until the end of November 2026 ^[36]. The High Court of Justice froze that law the next day and struck it down on 3 September 2026 ^[41]. The Jerusalem Post described Litner's approach as an alternative to that legislation ^[21]. No statement from the party about these two laws was found beyond its general positions above.

The platform says everyone who does not study full-time "will be required to serve" ^[4], and Litner said on 2 September 2026 that the party would remove the sanctions from full-time Torah students ^[19]. None of the sources opened says what enforcement, if any, would apply to a person who is required to serve and does not. The party has not published such a mechanism.

The party's scope is Haredi men. Its service proposals apply to the Haredi community as the party describes it, and the platform's exemption is for those who "dedicate their life in practice to full-time study".

Closest option(s): Bring Haredim into the army gradually through army and service tracks suited to a religious lifestyle and incentives (gradual-targets-by-agreement), but without that option's funding cuts when targets are missed. The party also holds the exemption-protection element of anchor-torah-study-exemption for full-time students, and it does not propose universal service backed by sanctions. The evidence is mixed between these two options.

• Formal commitment: The platform's chapter "A Home for Every Family" says construction for the Haredi community "lags far behind its natural growth". It proposes a national Haredi housing program that would "increase the number of construction starts fivefold" ^[8].
• Formal commitment: The platform says new Haredi neighborhoods and cities should be advanced "only when they include a complete living environment", including employment areas, schools, health services and public transport ^[8]. It says the party "will oppose failed plans to establish isolated Charedi housing projects in remote areas" and wants Haredi neighborhoods in cities throughout Israel ^[8]. It also calls for stronger Haredi local authorities, with income from employment and commercial zones, and fair government funding ^[8].
• Formal commitment: The "Our Economy" chapter calls for "shortening and simplifying planning and building-permit procedures, and expanding development rights in high-demand areas and along main public transportation routes" ^[11].

This housing program is aimed at Haredi communities. The general planning reform in the economy chapter applies to everyone ^[11]. The party has not published positions on state-built rental housing, rent limits or mortgage subsidies in the sources found.

Closest option(s): Build much more, faster, by speeding up planning and permits (speed-up-planning-and-construction). The party also stresses transport and employment in any new neighborhood, which is partly like develop-periphery-and-transport.

No documented position found. The party's platform does not mention Iran, Hezbollah or regional strategy ^[2–11]. Searches covered the party site and campaign updates, interviews and news coverage ^{[18, 19, 21, 26, 29, 30]}.

No documented position found. The platform does not address the issue ^[2–11], and the leader's interviews do not either ^{[19, 21, 29]}.

No documented position found. The platform has no chapter on the courts, the attorney general or the judicial selection law ^[2–11]. Searches in Hebrew and English, including Haredi outlets and the party's campaign updates, found no statements on the court system by the leader or by candidates. The party's "Who We Are" page says that Haredi representatives "are unable to achieve the very goals they were elected to deliver", but this is not a position on the courts ^[12]. Litner's remark that a legal exemption for full-time students should not be "a temporary political arrangement that will collapse in court" ^[29] concerns enlistment, not the judicial system.

No documented position found. The platform does not address a commission of inquiry ^[2–11]. Searches of the party site, the leader's and Dr. Yaffe's interviews and news coverage found no statement on who should appoint such a commission ^{[19, 21, 26, 29]}. The party's "Who We Are" page refers to "the disaster of October 7th" only as the background to its view of existing Haredi leaders ^[12].

No documented position found on the Chief Rabbinate, marriage and conversion, or public transport on Shabbat. The party's platform and public statements concentrate on Haredi community issues ^[2–11]. Searches for statements on these subjects by the leader and candidates found none ^{[19, 21, 26, 29]}.

Related facts, which are not positions on those questions, are as follows. The party says its representatives will "follow the path of Torah and mitzvos" and that it is guided by Torah scholars ^[12]. The leader said Haredi representatives work with rabbinic guidance and that his party also has rabbis ^[19]. Dr. Yaffe said the party's move was made with rabbis and has a committee of rabbis ^[26].

• Formal commitment: The platform says "Charedi education will remain independent, and that independence will be fiercely guarded" and that the party will resist "improper outside interference" ^[5]. It also says Haredi schools need better-trained teachers, safe buildings and help for struggling pupils ^[5].
• Formal commitment: The platform would strengthen the state-Haredi ("Mamach") school stream, which it describes as giving an education "rooted in Torah and derech eretz" together with knowledge for adult life, "within a properly funded and supervised framework". It would expand the range of institutions within that stream, so each community can find a setting that matches its tradition, and would end the use of temporary or unsafe buildings through a national building program ^[5]. The "Who We Are" page proposes to stop the Haredi parties' "war against the state-Charedi education stream" ^[12].
• Formal commitment: The livelihood chapter says every Haredi child is entitled to "foundational learning in the basics of core educational subjects," foremost English and mathematics, "alongside and in no way contrary to Torah" ^[7].
• Statement: In the 14 August 2026 interview, Litner said that not teaching children English, maths and basic life skills "is like not teaching a child to read". The Jerusalem Post reports that he said the government should make sure all schools teach core subjects, and he said the party would see to it that every Haredi child whose parents want it can learn English and mathematics ^[21].
• Statement: On 3 September 2026 the party published a five-year plan for Haredi education, which sets budgets for institutions that choose to teach core subjects, according to the party's timeline ^[18].

This policy concerns the Haredi school system. The state-Haredi stream already exists as a state-recognized option.

• Formal commitment: The platform chapter "No Child Left Behind" says that "on average, one in five Charedi students drops out of the education system" and calls for systemic change ^[6]. It proposes a data system to monitor at-risk youth, mandatory reporting of both open and "hidden" dropout (pupils who are enrolled but in practice absent) with sanctions on institutions that fail to report, social mentors, vocational training from age fourteen, and access to matriculation exams without enrollment in a specific institution ^[6].
• Formal commitment: The platform proposes supervising the "Gefen" and other government budgets in Haredi and mixed municipalities, and extra funding for Haredi youth departments in mixed municipalities where Haredi children are more than 30 percent of the population ^[6].

• Formal commitment: The platform chapter "All of the Shivtei Yisrael" opposes discrimination in admission to kindergartens, schools, yeshivas and seminaries on grounds of origin, status or connections, and cites Sephardic, Ashkenazi, later-in-life religious and working families as affected groups ^[9].
• Formal commitment: It proposes immediately reducing government and municipal funding for institutions that discriminate and redirecting it to institutions that admit students fairly; the party's FAQ says such an institution "will immediately lose government and municipal funding" ^{[2, 9]}. It also proposes budget priority for state-Haredi institutions with fair admission standards, action against principals who discriminate "up to and including suspension", and an intercommunal committee to set placement criteria ^[9].

• Formal commitment: The platform's livelihood chapter calls for career-guidance and employment centers in Haredi communities, training in high-tech and other well-paid sectors with separate frameworks for men and women, a voucher program to close educational gaps, employer incentives, and more Haredi representation in the civil service ^[7]. It also proposes Haredi coworking spaces with modesty standards ^[7].
• Formal commitment: The economy chapter proposes ending compulsory membership in labor unions and professional associations, and limiting protection from damages claims for strikes to labor disputes within the workplace, not strikes against government or Knesset policy ^[11]. It also proposes replacing direct payments to parents of children with special needs with "a broad and flexible package of treatments and services" ^[11].
• Statement: Litner's interviews and the party's launch stressed poverty in Haredi society as a main concern ^{[20, 21, 27]}.

• Formal commitment: The platform says "Every Jew, no matter where they're from, has the right to make Aliyah" and that the state's responsibility "does not end at Ben-Gurion Airport." It would increase budgets for encouraging aliyah and absorbing immigrants, simplify bureaucracy, recognise overseas qualifications, and create accompaniment programs for immigrants joining Haredi communities, with schools matching the family's religious background ^[10].
• Statement: Litner said in the 14 August 2026 interview that the party wants to "beef up budgets, additional billions" for immigrants of every sector, and to build education institutions for Haredi immigrants ^[21].

• Statement: On 2 September 2026, according to Kikar HaShabbat, the party did not intend to include women on its list; Litner said in that interview that women's representation was "not the root issue" for the Haredi community ^[19].
• Action: On 7 September 2026 the party announced Dr. Nechumi Yaffe's candidacy, and the list published by the CEC on 8 September 2026 has Yaffe third and Ziva Glantz fourth ^{[1, 23, 24]}. The party's candidate list thus has women in two of its top four places ^{[1, 24]}.
• Change over time: The 2 September 2026 report that the party would not include women ^[19] was followed five days later by the announcement of Yaffe's candidacy ^[23]. Calcalist reported that the change followed media and internal pressure from Haredi women ^[25]. Litner wrote on 28 September 2026 that the decision came after deliberations and that "no one is prouder than me" of their inclusion ^[38].
• Statement: In her 27 September 2026 interview Dr. Yaffe pointed to women who acted throughout Jewish history and argued that there is no reason to rule out a Haredi woman's candidacy for the Knesset ^[26].

• Statement: On 8 September 2026 Litner said that Shas had "become a branch of the Peleg thugs shouting in the streets 'we will die and not enlist'" and that tens of thousands of former Shas voters now have an alternative ^[24]. (The Peleg, or Jerusalem Faction, is a small Haredi group that opposes enlistment.)
• Formal commitment: The party's "Who We Are" page says that during the 25th Knesset, Haredi representatives became unable to protect Torah learners or improve housing and livelihood. It also lists "deep corruption in some Charedi municipalities" among the community's problems ^[12]. These are the party's own assertions.