Yashar LeYisrael with Eisenkot

Formal commitment: Yashar's economic programme promises an "uncompromising fight against the cost of living". It would cancel import barriers and Israel-only standards "that have no justification", open the market to parallel imports, break the power of concentrated groups in the food and consumer markets while protecting Israeli agriculture, reform kashrut rules and the import of kosher goods, cut red tape for producers and importers, and remove barriers to foreign companies and new competitors ^[17]. The youth programme repeats the same competition measures ^[20].

Formal commitment: On taxes, the programme proposes lowering income tax and paying for it with taxes on products with "clear negative effects", such as disposable tableware and sweetened drinks. Property-tax discounts, tax exemptions and allowances would be given by socio-economic need, measured after the person's earning capacity has been used, and not by sector. It also promises a campaign against the black economy: real-time digital reporting of large transactions, much less use of cash, and AI tools to find fake invoices ^[17]. Tax credits would be reshaped to reward those who carry the economic and security burden, so that "work always pays more than an allowance" ^[17].

Formal commitment: The party also offers targeted help, mostly for people who serve: a 15% raise for all conscripts and a 50% raise for combat soldiers in their third year ^{[20, 21, 30]}, priority for working and serving families in daycare subsidies and housing benefits ^[17], and higher old-age allowances for low-income pensioners, Holocaust survivors and immigrants with small pensions ^[25]. Statement: In August 2026 Farkash-Hacohen (No. 3) told The Media Line that Yashar would close ministries it regards as unnecessary, reduce government spending tied to coalition politics, and review subsidies it believes discourage work ^[14].

Action (bills by top candidates): In June 2023 Farkash-Hacohen, Tropper and Kahana were among dozens of MKs from across the Knesset who co-sponsored a bill to cut VAT to 8% for two years on price-controlled products and basic foods such as bread, milk, meat, eggs, flour and oil. It did not advance past the preliminary stage ^[75]. In June 2025 Farkash-Hacohen and Kahana co-sponsored a bill to give tax benefits to factories that compete in highly concentrated markets, citing the 2011 Trajtenberg committee's finding that concentration is a main cause of high prices. It was stopped ^[83]. Trajtenberg, who led that committee, is a Yashar founder ^[2].

Action (in government, 2021): Kahana, Tropper and Farkash-Hacohen were ministers in the government that passed the 2021 Arrangements Law. Besides the kashrut reform, it included an import reform that Srugim reported was expected to save consumers about NIS 6 billion a year ^{[87, 41, 42, 49]}.

Action (budget votes): Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against the 2023–2024 state budget and the accompanying economic arrangements law in May 2023 ^{[58, 93]}, and against the 2025 budget at first reading in December 2024 ^[91] and at its final reading on March 25, 2025 (the Knesset record files the vote under the sitting of March 24) ^[106]. Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against the 2026 budget in its final reading on March 30, 2026 ^[102].

Closest option(s): Open the market to more competition and imports (open-market-competition-imports). The platform also includes targeted support for people who serve and low-income pensioners (direct-support-for-households), and an income-tax cut paired with new consumption taxes.

Formal commitment: Yashar's internal-security programme promises a "national emergency plan" against crime. It includes a national cabinet against organized crime, headed by the prime minister with a dedicated government project manager; a multi-year plan to strengthen the police, with a four-year emergency budget for staff, investigators, intelligence and technology; a dedicated enforcement system for organized crime with its own investigation and intelligence units, a dedicated prosecution unit and specialised courts; and wider use of asset forfeiture and administrative tools ^[18]. It promises that police independence "will be anchored in legislation" and that politicians will stop dealing with police appointments and investigations ^[18].

Formal commitment: A specific section on crime in Arab society calls for "joint action with the leadership of Arab society and the community", with Arab society actively taking part. This starts with compulsory civilian service for young Arab citizens, partly directed at fighting crime, alongside targeted enforcement and more technology ^[18]. On June 24, 2026 the party presented a plan for Arab society covering personal security, state education and civilian service. Yoram Cohen, a former Shin Bet head, leads its security part. Inbar Harush-Giti said that bringing young Arab citizens into civilian service "can help deal with the challenges of education, violence and crime" ^[33].

What wasn't found: No Yashar statement was found for or against the government's July 2026 decision to bring the Shin Bet into the fight against crime organizations, or for or against holding suspects without trial. Searches covered Hebrew and English news and the party's programmes.

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed. The core is a large police and enforcement build-up under normal law, with new dedicated units, prosecutors and courts (more-police-resources-normal-law). It is combined with community partnership, civilian service and state education for young Arab citizens, which overlaps with invest-in-arab-communities-first. The party has not taken a documented position on Shin Bet involvement or detention without trial.

Statement: In an interview published on October 6, 2026, Eisenkot said he would advance "President Trump's 20-point postwar plan, but strictly from a position of strength". He said Hamas's "total disarmament" is a condition before governance can be restored and Gaza rebuilt ^[9]. In September 2026 he said only one of the war's goals, the return of the hostages, had been achieved ^[10].

Statement: The Jerusalem Post reported in early September 2026 that Eisenkot is open to the Palestinian Authority or another replacement taking over governance from Hamas. It also reported that he supports rebuilding in stages, tied to how much disarmament has actually happened, and that he accuses Prime Minister Netanyahu of having "kept Hamas in power in the Strip" ^[11]. Eisenkot says he agrees with the majority view in the defense establishment that, if the choice is between the PA and Hamas, "Hamas is much worse" ^[11].

Statement (about his role as a minister, 2023): Eisenkot says that during the November 2023 hostage negotiations he was "the lone voice" in the war cabinet arguing for continuing the deal and releasing hostages in stages before fighting resumed ^[9].

Action (Knesset votes): On October 28, 2024 Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper all voted for the law ending the activity of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in Israeli sovereign territory. It passed 92–10 ^[64]. On December 6, 2023, while National Unity was part of the emergency government, all four voted against the wartime supplementary budget at first reading, which passed 62–53 ^[59]. The Times of Israel reported that the faction opposed the budget because Gantz's public request to remove discretionary coalition funds from it was ignored; at the final vote on December 14, 2023 its MKs were not in the hall, though their opposition was recorded in the protocol ^[60].

Closest option(s): Move forward with the US plan, with gradual disarmament and withdrawal (advance-international-arrangement). Eisenkot puts strong emphasis on Hamas disarming before reconstruction, which overlaps with hold-positions-disarmament-first. No statement was found supporting renewed full-scale war, encouraging emigration from Gaza, or Israeli settlement in Gaza.

Formal commitment: Yashar promises to pass a "State Service for All" law. Every citizen would be required to serve, with the IDF first and civilian or national service for those the IDF doesn't take. The IDF would choose conscripts by its needs "while preserving their way of life" ^[16]. A new independent national service administration would summon all young people for screening, with no "sectoral, communal or party-political hand" in the process ^[16]. Each year up to 3% of the age group (the exact share set by the defense establishment's needs) could defer service by one year at a time to study Torah. Selection would be open, with external and equal criteria, and those deferred would still be drafted and do basic training. Deferrals would be renewed yearly under supervision, and false reporting would cancel the deferral and lead to criminal proceedings ^[16].

Formal commitment: Those who are not exempt and don't serve would lose a long list of state benefits. These include state tenders, scholarships, property-tax discounts, priority in housing programmes, National Insurance benefits, transport discounts, mortgage and rent aid, long-term rental eligibility, land allocations, purchase-tax and capital-gains exemptions on a single home, support for Torah institutions, and even a driving licence and the right to leave the country. They would also face criminal law ^[16]. People who serve would get priority in benefits, ranked: combat veterans first, then other military veterans, then civilian-service veterans ^[16].

Statement: Eisenkot told the Jerusalem Post in September 2026 that he proposes a "universal service law. Everyone must serve: haredim and Arabs", with about 3% of Haredim eligible for exemptions ^[10]. In October 2026 he called the Haredi slogan "we will die rather than enlist" "un-Jewish behavior" ^[9]. In May 2026 he said the army must grow and repeated his call to draft Haredim into the IDF and Arab citizens into national service ^[36].

Action (2023 bill): On May 9, 2023 Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper co-sponsored, with Benny Gantz and others, the "Israeli Service" bill ^[70]. It would have required every citizen and permanent resident to do at least 24 months of service in the IDF, the rescue services or community service, with the IDF choosing first. Christian and Muslim Arab citizens would serve in the civilian tracks ^[70]. Graduates of Haredi schools could ask to fulfil their duty through a track that combines study with service, provided they study at least 45 hours a week in a Haredi yeshiva and don't work; the bill set no numerical cap on this track ^[70]. The bill would also have abolished yearly enlistment targets and set the exemption age at 24. Sanctions for those who don't comply were administrative fines and a ban on state employment and state tenders, and up to two years in prison for breaching a court order to report or knowingly giving false information ^[70]. The bill did not pass.

Statement (2024, as a minister): On February 26, 2024, while in the emergency government, Gantz and Eisenkot presented an enlistment outline. Under it most young people would serve, and a new administration would decide each person's type of service ^[8].

Action (Knesset vote, 2024): On June 11, 2024 Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against reviving a 2022 enlistment bill from the previous Knesset. The motion passed 63–57 ^[61]. The Jerusalem Post reported that the bill would change the age of exemption for yeshiva students, offer short or alternative service tracks, and cut funding to yeshivas that miss enlistment quotas ^[62]. The bill had been tabled in January 2022 by the Bennett–Lapid government, in which Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper were ministers ^{[41, 42, 49]}. It passed its first reading 51–48 on January 31, 2022; none of the three is recorded as voting on it, and Eisenkot was not yet in politics ^{[9, 114]}.

Change over time: Both the 2023 bill and the 2026 platform require universal service and include criminal penalties, so the earlier bill does not contradict the current position. But the 2026 platform is stricter on Torah study. The 2023 "Israeli Service" bill that Eisenkot and the other top candidates co-sponsored would have let any Haredi school graduate who studies full time in a yeshiva ask to fulfil his duty through a track combining study with service, with no cap on numbers ^[70]. Yashar's 2026 platform instead caps Torah-study deferrals at up to 3% of each age group, for one year at a time, and requires those deferred to do basic training ^[16].

Closest option(s): Require everyone, including Haredim, to serve in the army or civilian service, with a small quota of Torah scholars and loss of benefits for those who refuse (universal-service-with-sanctions).

Formal commitment: Yashar's economic programme says it will "flood the market with new apartments", tax land that is not being advanced for construction, and use the need for bomb shelters as an engine of urban renewal (rebuilding older buildings) ^[17]. It ties housing to transport: finishing a fast rail network linking the periphery to the centre, and speeding up metro and light-rail lines in the big cities ^[17]. Statement: In August 2026 Farkash-Hacohen told The Media Line that there are no "magic solutions" for housing, and that better transport and infrastructure could widen the realistic housing market instead of relying on construction policy alone ^[14].

Formal commitment: For renters, the youth programme promises to stop rents rising and bring them down, to publish anonymised rental and sale prices for each street, to make landlords rather than tenants pay brokerage fees, backed by a new enforcement unit, and to create subsidised legal aid and fast-track dispute resolution for renters ^[20]. It also promises help for working and serving young couples buying a first home ^[20], and reservists would get dedicated land allocations and long-term rental projects ^[21].

Formal commitment: The northern recovery plan includes urban renewal in Kiryat Shmona, a framework agreement for thousands of new homes, and rent-to-own and rental tracks for people in essential professions who move north ^[22].

Closest option(s): Build much more, faster (speed-up-planning-and-construction), combined with investment in transport and the periphery (develop-periphery-and-transport). There are secondary elements of rental-market regulation and help for buyers who serve.

Statement: Eisenkot calls Iran Israel's most dangerous enemy and says it could reach nuclear capability "within several months" ^[32]. In October 2026 he cited Iran's 440 kg of enriched uranium and proposed a "comprehensive plan… to act to destroy the capability", coordinated with the United States and including an "intrusive inspection regime" ^[9]. The Jerusalem Post reported in September 2026 that he wants a US commitment to strike any movement of Iran's enriched uranium, and wants covert Mossad operations widened to cover Iran's ballistic missiles ^[11].

Statement: On Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post reported that Eisenkot is worried about some 2,000 Hezbollah fighters still in southern Lebanon. He doubts the Lebanese army will act alone, would be willing in some circumstances to go back to an eight-kilometre security zone, and wants US and French backing to push the Lebanese army to confront Hezbollah ^[11]. In October 2026 he said there "could also be an opportunity with Lebanon", and that improving the 1974 separation agreement with Syria would require "the total removal of the Turks and the Russians" ^[9].

Formal commitment: The party's ten-point plan calls for a new national security doctrine and for Israel to become a regional power, while working to expand "the circle of peace" ^[28]. Statement: Eisenkot proposes a "multi-theater initiative with the American administration", strengthening ties with Egypt, Jordan and the Abraham Accords countries, and actively bringing in more states, including building toward a "NATO of the Sunni states" ^[9].

Closest option(s): Keep up military pressure and turn it into US-backed agreements (force-plus-us-backed-agreements).

Statement: Eisenkot rejects a Palestinian state. In August 2026, after the Ra'am leader called for one, he pledged there would be no Palestinian state, "not now, not in the next government" ^[13]. He said "anyone who is thinking about a two-state solution after October 7 is just delusional" ^[12]. In October 2026 he described the arrangement he has in mind as "autonomy or a state-minus" that "certainly will not have an army, and will be under overriding Israeli security control" ^[9].

Statement: He also says "the Palestinian Authority needs to be allowed to govern the 2.8 million Palestinians. I do not want to govern them", and proposes improving living conditions with investment from wealthy Sunni states ^[9].

Statement (settlements): "I support settlements provided they conform strictly to the map of Israel's security interests and to the law." He says illegal outposts in Areas A and B would be "evacuated immediately" and that everything legally approved in Area C "will remain" ^[9]. On building in the E1 area near Jerusalem he said "Not now. This is a mistake that costs us an international price" ^[12].

Statement (security and law enforcement): He says that giving the police to Minister Ben Gvir and the Civil Administration (COGAT) to Minister Smotrich cost the IDF its control in the area ^[12]. He would dismantle Smotrich's powers in the Defense Ministry, return civil affairs to the military system, and restore administrative detention orders against Jewish extremists who commit violence ^{[9, 10, 11]}.

Action (Knesset votes by top candidates):

• On July 18, 2024 the Knesset adopted a resolution, 68–9, at the end of a debate on international recognition of a Palestinian state. Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted for it. Eisenkot and Kahana are not recorded as voting ^[63]. The resolution stated that the Knesset "adamantly" opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, arguing such a state could serve as a base for terrorist groups ^[95].
• On January 22, 2025 Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper all voted for an opposition bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley. It was defeated 32–56 at its preliminary reading ^[112].
• On October 22, 2025, after Eisenkot and Kahana had left the Knesset, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted for a bill applying Israeli sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim, a large settlement east of Jerusalem. It passed its preliminary reading 31–9 ^{[65, 66]}. Neither of them is recorded as voting on the same day's broader bill to apply sovereignty to all of Judea and Samaria, which passed 25–24 ^[94].

Statement (reported): The Jewish Chronicle reports that Eisenkot opposes formally applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria as a whole (the newspaper's term is annexation), arguing that Israel must preserve a Jewish majority and avoid a single state ^[15]. This is the newspaper's summary; no matching platform text or direct quote was found.

What wasn't found: No direct statement by Eisenkot or the party, and no platform text, was found supporting or opposing applying Israeli sovereignty to all or part of Judea and Samaria, including the Jordan Valley. Besides the Jewish Chronicle's summary ^[15], the records found are the January 2025 Jordan Valley vote by all four leaders, cast when they were National Unity MKs ^[112], and the Ma'ale Adumim vote by Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper ^[65].

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed. Eisenkot's 2026 statements point to keeping the current situation, with no Palestinian state, settlements kept within security needs and Israeli security control (maintain-current-situation); he differs from that option's wording in promising to evacuate illegal outposts and to oppose E1 construction for now. The votes on record (Action) point another way: in January 2025 Eisenkot and three other top candidates voted to apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and in October 2025 two of them voted to apply it to Ma'ale Adumim, which matches sovereignty over key areas only (partial-sovereignty-area-c). Those votes were cast in another party, before Yashar was founded, and Yashar has not said whether it holds that position.

Statement: Eisenkot said in October 2026 that his government would immediately cancel the law changing the Judicial Selection Committee, cancel "measures aimed at weakening the attorney general", and repeal the law that moved the department for investigating judges. It would also pass a law preventing a criminal defendant from forming a government, limit a prime minister's tenure to eight years, and cap the cabinet at 24 ministers ^[9].

Formal commitment: The economic programme promises legislation to "ensure the independence of the justice system", presented as a way to restore the confidence of the high-tech sector and foreign investors ^[17]. Under the heading of strengthening democracy, the ten-point plan commits to an independent judicial system and a free press, a Basic Law: Legislation that would strengthen the Knesset's independence and authority, other laws setting agreed "rules of the game", a limit of two terms for a prime minister, and an end to political appointments in the civil service ^[28]. Statement (reported): The Jewish Chronicle reports that Yashar opposes changes that limit the Supreme Court's powers and supports a written constitution that would bring the Basic Laws together in one document ^[15].

Action (Knesset votes, 2023): Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against the government's 2023 changes to the judicial system in both first-reading votes found:

• the first reading of an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary on February 20, 2023, passed 63–47 ^[54];
• the first reading of the "reasonableness" amendment on July 11, 2023, passed 64–56. That amendment limits the courts' power to cancel government and ministerial decisions as "unreasonable" ^{[55, 56]}.

The opposition boycotted the final vote on the reasonableness law on July 24, 2023, which passed 64–0 ^[56]. It also boycotted the final vote on the law changing the Judicial Selection Committee on March 27, 2025 ^[57], which passed 67–1. None of the four is recorded as voting ^[107]. That law was the same Basic Law amendment whose first reading they had opposed in February 2023 ^{[54, 107]}. Eisenkot was still an MK on both dates ^[4].

Action (bills):

• In December 2024 Tropper, Eisenkot, Kahana and Farkash-Hacohen co-sponsored a Basic Law amendment. It would make the most senior Supreme Court justice automatically become court president if the Judicial Selection Committee doesn't choose one within 60 days. The sponsors' explanation says a permanent, independent president is needed to protect the judiciary's independence ^[72].
• The same group co-sponsored a Basic Law amendment limiting a prime minister to eight consecutive years ^[71].
• In May 2023 Eisenkot, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper co-sponsored, with Gantz and others, a bill writing the right to equality into Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty. It bans discrimination on grounds including religion, sex, sexual orientation, origin, age and disability ^[76].
• Eisenkot co-sponsored a bill to convene the Knesset Ethics Committee over ministers giving information to the Knesset ^[48]. None of these bills passed.

Action (votes by top candidates after Eisenkot left): On October 29, 2025 Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against bills to split the role of the attorney general. They passed their preliminary reading 61–46 ^[67]. On June 2, 2026 they also voted against the first reading of the Attorney General (Opinions, Representation and Oversight) Law, which passed 65–47 ^[105], and on July 15, 2026 against its final reading, which passed 65–51 ^[115].

Consistency check: No vote or bill was found in which the leaders supported the government's changes to the judicial system. Their record matches Eisenkot's stated plan to reverse them ^[9].

Closest option(s): Reverse the recent changes and protect the independence of the courts and attorney general (repeal-changes-protect-independence). The reported support for a written constitution ^[15] and the planned Basic Law: Legislation ^[28] overlap with broad-agreed-constitutional-framework.

Formal commitment: A state commission of inquiry into October 7 is the first item of Yashar's ten-point plan ^[28]. It was also presented as a core pillar at the party's launch conference on June 30, 2026 ^[31].

Formal commitment / Statement: In August 2026, at Kibbutz Nir Oz and together with former hostage Gadi Moses, Eisenkot presented a draft framework for the commission. Under the draft, the government would recommend that the President of the Supreme Court decide the commission's members, after consulting the deputy president, the President of Israel and the Knesset Speaker. The commission would examine the events and decisions of the political leadership, the military and security establishment, and the relevant civilian state bodies before October 7, 2023, starting from the decade after the 2014 Gaza operation (Protective Edge). The draft was published for public comment until October 7, 2026 ^[32]. Eisenkot committed to set up the commission "in the first government session" ^[32] and said the inquiry should cover "the last 10 years" ^[10]. In October 2026 he said: "We will immediately pass a government decision establishing a formal state commission of inquiry" ^[9].

Action (bills by Farkash-Hacohen, No. 3): Farkash-Hacohen sponsored three bills to set up the commission:

• In June 2024 she sponsored a bill to set up a five-member state commission of inquiry into October 7 and the war, with the President of the Supreme Court appointing its chair and members within 30 days ^[73]. She resubmitted it in February 2025 ^[96].
• In February 2025 she sponsored a bill to make a state commission of inquiry mandatory, without a government decision, after "exceptional events": a war lasting over three months, a surprise attack in which enemy forces held Israeli territory for over 24 hours, or an event in which more than 30 people were killed or taken hostage. The Supreme Court president or deputy president would head it and choose members after consulting the President of Israel. At least two members would be women and one would represent bereaved or affected families ^[74]. None of these bills passed.

Action (vote): On December 24, 2025 Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against a bill for a "state-national" commission of inquiry into October 7. It passed its preliminary reading 53–48 ^[68].

Closest option(s): A state commission of inquiry whose members are chosen by the President of the Supreme Court, as the law requires (state-commission-under-existing-law). Yashar adds a consultation step with the President of Israel and the Knesset Speaker.

Formal commitment: Yashar's immigration programme commits to "inclusive and respectful Judaism… while widening the independence of local authorities and communities to shape Shabbat in the public sphere according to their character and values." On personal status it says: "We will work to institutionalise civil unions in Israel, promote respectful conversion processes", and allow burial of terror victims in the IDF's manner ^[23].

Formal commitment: In education, Yashar would make the State Education Law and core studies a condition for full public funding. It would require non-state institutions, especially Haredi ones, to join a Haredi state stream with full core studies and state supervision, and would significantly cut funding for institutions that don't meet the state standard ^[19]. The national core would include "Jewish-Israeli identity", Hebrew, English, mathematics, science, AI, critical thinking, and citizenship and democracy ^[19]. Eisenkot said in October 2026 that "any institution that does not enter the state education system within four years will simply not receive state funding" ^[9], and in September 2026 that "whoever is not in state education… will not receive funding from the state" ^[10]. Statement: In December 2025 he called state education, in its Hebrew, religious and Haredi streams, "the ticket into Israeliness" ^[29].

Action (by a top candidate, in government): As Minister of Religious Services, Matan Kahana (No. 5) led a kashrut reform that passed as part of the Arrangements Law on November 4, 2021 ^[87]. It opened kosher certification to competition: private certification bodies, alongside local rabbinates, could certify businesses under Chief Rabbinate standards, with the Chief Rabbinate supervising ^[87]. Maariv reported that the reform formally took effect in January 2023, but successive religious services ministers kept the previous arrangements in place through interim orders for three years, so private certification was hardly implemented. On July 15, 2026 the Knesset passed a government amendment (Amendment No. 5) returning certification authority only to public bodies, the Chief Rabbinate and local rabbis and religious councils ^[88]. Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper voted against that amendment at its first reading on June 2, 2026 ^[104] and at its final reading on July 15, 2026, which passed 46–41 ^[108]. On July 13, 2026 they also voted against Basic Law: Torah Study, which passed 63–52 ^[103]. In February 2022 the cabinet's legislative committee approved Kahana's conversion reform for a first reading ^[43]. Knesset records show that the government's 2022 conversion bill was waiting for a first reading when that Knesset ended, and it went no further ^[97].

Action (bills by top candidates):

• In November 2024 Kahana sponsored a bill requiring that women make up about 47% of the body that elects the Chief Rabbis and the Chief Rabbinate Council, without changing its rabbinic majority ^[78].
• In January 2023 Tropper co-sponsored a bill to strengthen the status of "integrated" state schools, which teach religious and secular pupils together ^[79].
• The 2023 bill writing equality into a Basic Law, co-sponsored by Eisenkot, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper, includes religion and sexual orientation among banned grounds of discrimination ^[76]. None of these bills passed.

Statement (reported): The Jewish Chronicle reports that Yashar favours civil marriage, same-sex marriage and letting each municipality decide on Shabbat ^[15]. The civil-union and local-Shabbat points match the party's own platform ^[23]. No platform text on same-sex marriage was found on the party's site.

Closest option(s): Keep the Rabbinate but allow alternatives: civil unions and local decisions on Shabbat (more-choice-local-decisions).

Formal commitment: Yashar promises to invest NIS 20 billion over three years in reservists, their families, livelihoods and employers ^[21]. It would cap reserve duty during a prolonged "routine of fighting" at 50 days a year and 150 days over three years, as a four-year temporary measure, and require at least six months' notice of reserve duty ^[21]. Other measures include full compensation to employers from National Insurance for social contributions during reserve duty, grants for reservists' families, land and long-term rental housing for combat reservists, and expanding the "Mimadim LeLimudim" scholarship so combat soldiers get 100% of their degree paid ^[21]. Conscripts would get a 15% pay rise, and combat soldiers in their third year 50% ^{[21, 30]}.

Action (2024–2025, as an MK): Eisenkot was lead sponsor of a bill to make all IDF servicemembers eligible for the "Mimadim LeLimudim" fund. The coalition voted it down on November 20, 2024 ^[7], and Knesset records list it as stopped ^[48]. He also co-sponsored a bill exempting reserve-duty pay from income tax and adding tax credits for active reservists, which also did not advance ^[48].

Action: In July 2023 Eisenkot sponsored a "National Security Concept" bill. Its explanatory notes argue that Israel's security doctrine has been informal since David Ben-Gurion, that the state should have a formal one, and that such a document would be "a compass" for strengthening national security and a tool for the country's leaders ^[80]. That bill was stopped ^[98], but the idea returned in a later bill. The National Security Strategy Law, 2025, sponsored by Eisenkot and Yuli Edelstein, passed its second and third readings on June 10, 2025 by 19–0 ^{[5, 6]}. It requires the National Security Council to prepare a national security strategy for each new government, which the government must approve within about five months. Only a summary is published ^[6]. Eisenkot said that after October 7 the law reflects shared lessons and "is meant to serve as a compass" for long-term planning ^[6].

Formal commitment: Yashar promises about NIS 15 billion over five years for northern Israel, including about NIS 6 billion for bomb shelters ^[22]. It would complete shelters within 9 km of the northern border by 2030 instead of 2035: detached homes 1–5 km from the border by the end of 2028, those 5–9 km away by the end of 2029, and urban housing by the end of 2030 ^[22]. The plan includes a 300-officer district police unit against serious crime and protection rackets, lower corporate tax rates in the border area (2.5%) and the northern district (5%), business property-tax cuts in 2026–2028, a forward emergency medical centre in Kiryat Shmona, more informal-education funding per pupil, and childcare subsidies for working families near the border who have served ^[22]. The Media Line also reported special tax benefits for Kiryat Shmona and incentives for young families to move north ^[14].

Formal commitment: Beyond the core-curriculum rules (see Religion and state), Yashar would set up a statutory national education council, similar to the National Security Council, to set a five-year plan ^[19]. It would give more powers to local authorities, give principals autonomy over a flexible budget and a separate pay scale, and create a new optional teacher employment track based on quality rather than seniority ^[19]. Other points: fewer external matriculation (bagrut) exams, replaced by skills-based assessment; AI taught as part of the curriculum; all care for children from birth to age 3 under the Education Ministry, with national licensing; and a higher pay scale for kindergarten teachers ^[19]. Adi Altschuler is the party's candidate for Education Minister ^[39].

Formal commitment: Yashar sets a target of one million new immigrants in the programme's first decade and two million by 2048, Israel's centenary ^{[23, 24]}. It cites more than 130,000 Israelis leaving in 2023–2025 ^[24]. It proposes a one-stop absorption body that starts working with immigrants abroad, fast-track recognition of degrees and professional licences, removal of banking barriers, a "hybrid residency" status for Israelis returning gradually, visa tracks for top international talent, and hundreds of new research positions in academia ^{[23, 24]}. It also proposes tax relief for older Jews with assets abroad who want to immigrate ^[24], and completing the immigration of communities already approved for aliyah ^[23].

Formal commitment: Yashar promises higher old-age allowances for low-income pensioners, including Holocaust survivors and immigrants with small pensions, and a permanent mechanism to protect allowances from erosion ^[25]. It would consider mandatory long-term-care insurance for the whole population, run a national programme against loneliness through local authorities, set up a national council for senior citizens, consider ways for people over 67 to keep working, and impose tougher penalties for fraud against older people ^[25].

Formal commitment: Yashar proposes national rehabilitation administrations, focused on the north and south, as "a single address" for people affected by trauma. A minister would be responsible for rehabilitation. Every discharged soldier would be entitled to continuing psychological care for as long as needed. Support for bereaved families would be extended to siblings and close circles, and patients would get a choice of treatment track ^{[27, 20]}.

Action (votes by top candidates): On March 30, 2026 the Knesset passed the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law 62–48. Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper, then MKs in the Blue and White – National Unity faction, voted against it ^[101]. JTA reported that the law makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians from Judea and Samaria convicted by military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis. Judges may impose life imprisonment in "special circumstances". For Israeli citizens tried in civilian courts, it applies to those who sought to "negate the existence of the State of Israel" ^[100]. None of the four leaders is recorded as voting on the bill's first reading on November 10, 2025, by which time Eisenkot and Kahana had left the Knesset ^[69]. No statement by Eisenkot or by Yashar on the death penalty was found.

Action (laws passed): Tropper (No. 6) co-sponsored the Israeli Sign Language Recognition Law, passed in 2026 ^{[85, 98]}, and a law creating a national day honouring soldiers and civilians wounded in Israel's wars and in terror attacks, passed in January 2026 ^{[85, 98]}. He also co-sponsored a 2025 law giving crime victims the right to state their position before a prisoner's parole ^{[85, 98]}. Kahana (No. 5) and Farkash-Hacohen (No. 3) co-sponsored the 2023 law on payments to families of hostages and missing persons, and a 2024 law on aid for university students who served in the reserves ^{[84, 86, 98]}. Kahana also co-sponsored a 2024 law barring state funding of legal representation for people suspected, accused or convicted of security offences in the war ^{[84, 98]}.

Formal commitment / Candidate: Adi Altschuler (No. 4), the party's candidate for Education Minister, founded the Krembo Wings youth movement for young people with and without disabilities and inclusive schools and kindergartens ^[39].

Action (bills): Eisenkot co-sponsored a bill setting quotas for women on the boards of public companies; it was stopped ^[48]. Kahana sponsored a bill to make women about 47% of the body that elects the Chief Rabbis ^[78]. Farkash-Hacohen's bills on state commissions of inquiry require women to be represented on them ^{[73, 74]}. Statement: Eisenkot said Yashar's candidate list reflects the party's commitment to equality between men and women ^[111].

Statement (about his record in government): As outgoing Minister of Culture and Sport (2020–2022), Tropper told Walla in November 2022 that the sports budget rose by about 30% in the last budget. He said a ten-year, NIS 3 billion plan for sports facilities had been agreed, and that he left "an effective tool in legislation" against violence at sports grounds, though he still saw serious violence ^[89]. Statement: As Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Farkash-Hacohen was presented in May 2022 with the Israel Space Agency's NIS 600 million, five-year programme to grow the civilian space industry, and said the sector had "great trading and economic potential" ^[90].

Formal commitment: Yashar treats agriculture as part of national security. It proposes a multi-year national food-security plan with production targets for essential products ^[26]. It would gradually replace "inefficient protections" with transparent direct support for farmers, anchor agriculture's status in law, break up concentration in the food market, support direct sales from farmers, and encourage agrivoltaic fields that combine farming with solar power ^[26]. The economic programme says import competition should go together with "preserving and encouraging Israeli agriculture" ^[17].

Formal commitment: Yashar promises to clear the public service of political appointments, set measurable targets, close unnecessary ministries, and use AI to digitise services ^[17]. Eisenkot proposes capping the cabinet at 24 ministers, an eight-year limit for prime ministers, and a law barring a criminal defendant from forming a government ^[9]. The internal-security programme proposes a ministerial committee against public corruption ^[18].

Action (bills):

• In December 2024 Eisenkot, Kahana, Farkash-Hacohen and Tropper co-sponsored the Basic Law amendment for an eight-year limit on a prime minister's consecutive time in office ^[71]. Kahana had earlier tabled an identical bill in the same Knesset (P/315/25), which was removed from the agenda in March 2023 ^{[71, 84, 98]}.
• In November 2023, a month into the war, Farkash-Hacohen co-sponsored two bills. One would abolish the government's newly created ministries and move their budgets to the war effort ^[81]. The other would freeze coalition-agreement funds during the emergency ^[82]. On January 31, 2024 she voted for the ministries bill, which was voted down 44–30 ^[99]. None of these bills passed.