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Yesh Atid – led by Yair Lapid

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Yair Lapid
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Researched as of
October 7, 2026

Running on a joint list with Together led by Bennett – Restoring Hope as Together (B'Yachad) led by Naftali Bennett.

Overview

Founding. Yesh Atid ("There is a Future") is a centrist party founded by Yair Lapid, a former journalist and television host. He registered the party in January 2012 after leaving journalism [1]. Lapid led the party without a leadership contest until March 2024, when he beat MK Ram Ben Barak in the party's first leadership primary by 308 votes to 279 [2].

Electoral history. Yesh Atid won 19 seats in its first election in 2013 and 11 seats in 2015. In the April 2019 and later 2019–2020 elections it ran inside the Blue and White joint list with Benny Gantz's Israel Resilience party and Moshe Ya'alon's Telem. It then ran alone, winning 17 seats in 2021 and 24 seats in November 2022 [3]. Yesh Atid served in Benjamin Netanyahu's government in 2013–2014, with Lapid as finance minister [1, 4]. In 2021 Lapid formed the coalition of the 36th government: Naftali Bennett served as prime minister for its first year and Lapid for its last six months [3]. Since the end of 2022 the party has been in opposition, and Lapid has been leader of the opposition [5, 11].

Current seats. In the outgoing 25th Knesset, the Knesset's own database lists 24 serving members of the Yesh Atid faction as of October 2026, including members who entered the Knesset between 2023 and 2026 to replace members who left [6].

Ideology and base. Yesh Atid presents itself as a centrist, secular-friendly party. Its long-running themes are military or civilian service for everyone, including Haredi yeshiva students; the cost of living and the middle class; a constitution; and broader choice in religious services such as civil marriage and Shabbat public transport [7, 8].

The list it runs on (joint list). In the 2026 election Yesh Atid runs on a joint list called Together (B'Yachad / ביחד) led by Naftali Bennett, with the ballot letters רק [9]. The Central Elections Committee (CEC) filing names two submitting parties: "Together led by Bennett – Restoring Hope" (Bennett's party) and "Yesh Atid – led by Yair Lapid" [10]. Bennett and Lapid announced the joint run on 26 April 2026 in Herzliya, under Bennett's leadership [11]. In April 2026 Yesh Atid MKs Meirav Ben-Ari and Vladimir Beliak said Yesh Atid is not dissolving. Beliak described the arrangement as "a technical bloc, meaning a bloc of two parties or two lists", with a plan to form a joint Knesset faction after the election [12]. A Calcalist analysis also described the joint run as in effect a "technical bloc", on the understanding that Lapid could split from Bennett after the election [13]. Under the slot agreement, Yesh Atid candidates hold four of the top ten places and, as The Times of Israel put it, "around half" of the first fifteen [14]; on the CEC list they hold 6 of the first 15 places [10].

History of these partners splitting up. Yesh Atid and Bennett's parties have never before run on a single list. The Israel Democracy Institute notes that although the two leaders have "a long history of coordination and co-operation… they have never run together under one list" [3]. There is therefore no record of this joint list splitting after an election. Three earlier episodes are relevant:

  • Coalition partnership, 2013–2014. After the January 2013 election, Lapid and Bennett (then leader of Jewish Home) negotiated with Netanyahu as an alliance, and both joined his government; the Haredi parties were left out [15]. That government ended when Netanyahu fired Lapid on 2 December 2014 [4].
  • Coalition partnership, 2021–2022. Bennett and Lapid led the 2021–2022 coalition together. It fell in June 2022 after it failed to renew the regulations that apply Israeli civilian law to Israelis in Judea and Samaria, and Lapid became caretaker prime minister [16].
  • Yesh Atid's earlier joint list split (Blue and White, 2020). Yesh Atid's previous joint list did split after an election. In late March 2020, after the March 2020 election, Benny Gantz decided to join a government with Netanyahu. Lapid and Ya'alon refused and split from Gantz, keeping the Blue and White name in opposition [17]. After the split Gantz led 17 MKs and Lapid 16 [18].

Departures before the 2026 election. Ahead of the September 2026 slate, several Yesh Atid MKs announced they would not run again, including founding members Meir Cohen, Mickey Levy and Karine Elharrar [14]. Others left for other lists: Ynetnews reported that Elazar Stern joined Gadi Eisenkot's party and Yoav Segalovitz joined Mansour Abbas's party [19]. Segalovitz, a former senior police officer and former deputy minister of public security, left Yesh Atid on 7 August 2026 [20].

Polling

Polling average: 8.7% (as of October 2, 2026). Source: Mean of 5 polls published 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-02

Polls included in the average
  • Lazar Research (led by Dr. Menachem Lazar) · Maariv · 2026-09-30–10-01 · 602 respondents · margin of error ±4.0% · published Oct 2, 2026
  • Next Data · Channel 14 (Arutz Achshav 14) · 2026-10-01 · 2145 respondents · margin of error ±2.1% · published Oct 1, 2026
  • Direct Polls (led by Tzuriel Sharon) · i24NEWS (Middle East News 24 Ltd.) · 2026-10-01 · 504 respondents · margin of error ±4.3% · published Oct 1, 2026
  • Maagar Mochot (led by Prof. Yitzhak Katz) · Channel 16 · 2026-09-29 · 550 respondents · margin of error ±4.2% · published Sep 29, 2026
  • Next Data · Channel 14 (Arutz Achshav 14) · 2026-09-28 · 573 respondents · margin of error ±4.1% · published Sep 28, 2026

Leadership and key candidates

Leader: Yair Lapid (born 5 November 1963, Tel Aviv). Lapid was a Maariv reporter and columnist and hosted television talk shows from 1994 to 2012 [1]. He was finance minister from 2013 until Netanyahu dismissed him in December 2014 [1, 4]. In the 2021–2022 government he was foreign minister and alternate prime minister, then prime minister from mid-2022 until the next government took office [1, 3]. He has been leader of the opposition since then. Lapid is No. 2 on the Together list, behind Naftali Bennett [10]. In May 2026 Lapid described a possible cabinet with Bennett as prime minister, Eisenkot as defense minister, Avigdor Liberman as finance minister and himself as foreign minister [21].

Yesh Atid's candidates on the Together list (CEC filing; place on the joint list shown as No.) [10]:

  • Yair Lapid (No. 2).
  • Meirav Ben-Ari (No. 4): a sitting MK who serves on Knesset committees including the National Security Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality [22]. She is Yesh Atid's No. 2 [14].
  • Noam Tibon (No. 6): a retired major general and former commander of the IDF's Northern Corps who served in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit. He became widely known for driving into Kibbutz Nahal Oz on 7 October 2023 to rescue his son's family. He joined Yesh Atid in November 2025, saying a government he joins would "establish a state commission of inquiry on its first day in office" and calling the coalition's bill on exemptions for Haredi men a "despicable draft-dodging law" [23].
  • Meirav Cohen (No. 9): a sitting MK. She was social equality minister for Blue and White and moved to Yesh Atid in January 2021 [24].
  • Ram Ben Barak (No. 12): a sitting MK and former deputy head of the Mossad [25]. He challenged Lapid for the party leadership in 2024 [2].
  • Further Yesh Atid candidates include Naor Shiri (No. 14), Vladimir Beliak (No. 16), Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu (No. 18), Yasmin Sacks-Friedman (No. 20), Neta Attias (No. 22) and Moshe Tur-Paz (No. 24) [10]. Ynetnews describes Beliak as known for parliamentary fights over coalition funds and government spending, and Attias as Yesh Atid's faction manager for the past decade [19].

The list is headed by Naftali Bennett (No. 1), with his party's candidates Keren Terner Eyal (No. 3) and Liran Avishar Ben-Horin (No. 5) among the top five [10]. They belong to the partner party and are covered in its own research document.

Positions on the issues

Note on sources: Yesh Atid runs inside a joint list. Below, "Yesh Atid" refers to the party's own record, platform page and leader. "Together" refers to the joint list's published plans, which Yesh Atid signed up to by running on the list. Both are cited separately so readers can see who said what.

Haredi military enlistment

Yesh Atid has made enlistment of Haredi yeshiva students into military or civilian national service one of its core issues since it was founded.

  • Dated background (2013–2014; action): In Netanyahu's 2013–2014 coalition, Yesh Atid made criminal sanctions for those who do not enlist central to its position. Lapid said in May 2013: "There will be an equal burden, or this government will fall to pieces." The cabinet then approved a bill under which 1,800 top Torah scholars a year would be fully exempted, and most other yeshiva students would face criminal sanctions if the Haredi community missed the enlistment targets [81]. The law passed 65–1 on 12 March 2014 while the opposition boycotted the vote; the Knesset record shows all 19 Yesh Atid MKs voting for it [26, 87]. It set rising yearly targets up to 2017 and individual criminal sanctions if the community as a whole missed them [26].
  • Action: In January 2022, the Bennett–Lapid coalition backed a government bill that lowered the age at which yeshiva students are exempted from service from 24 to 21. The government's stated aim was to let them enter the workforce earlier. The bill passed its first reading 51–48 on 31 January 2022, with Lapid voting for it, and was described as a placeholder until a fuller arrangement [27, 88]. Lapid, then foreign minister, said: "There's no such thing as rights without obligations" [27].
  • Action: On the night of 10–11 June 2024, the Knesset voted 63–57 to revive that 2022 bill under the "continuity" rule, which lets a new Knesset continue a bill from where the previous one stopped. Lapid and all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voted against [89]. Lapid called the vote "one of the most despicable moments of the Knesset" [104].
  • Action: In opposition, Yesh Atid opposed the coalition's 2025–2026 enlistment bill. When Netanyahu and Smotrich shelved it on 10 March 2026 to pass the state budget, Lapid said "For many months, we thwarted every possibility of advancing the law in the Knesset" [28]. Before the Knesset passed the Basic Law declaring Torah study a foundational value by 63–52 on 13 July 2026, Lapid and other opposition leaders signed a joint statement urging coalition MKs to vote against it, and Lapid said the coalition was "spitting in the face of IDF soldiers" [29]. The Knesset record shows Lapid and all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voting against the law [90]. Opposition party leaders vowed to repeal the law after the election [82].
  • Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's 2026 platform page commits to "a draft law for everyone – whoever doesn't enlist won't get a single shekel from the state" [7]. The Together list's "Those Who Serve Law" plan offers benefits to those who serve (for example, NIS 1 million towards a home for active reservists, free daycare for active reservists' children aged 0–3 and discounts on utility bills). It proposes funding this by cancelling coalition funds and stipends for full-time yeshiva students (avrechim), and treats full civilian national service like military service [30]. The list's religion-and-state plan says any arrangement that includes exemption percentages is rejected [57].
  • Statement: On 4 May 2025 Lapid said that when the opposition forms a government, "anyone who doesn't enlist, won't receive a single shekel from the State of Israel" [31]. On 27 October 2025 he said that in the next government "whoever does not enlist will not vote in the elections". Benny Gantz said such a law would be illegal [32]. At the list's campaign launch in September 2026, Bennett pledged to enlist Haredim "without quotas and without tricks" [33]. In May 2026 Lapid said that "all talk about 'compromises with the Haredim' is a political mistake and a moral error" [34].
  • Change over time: In January 2022, in government, Lapid voted for the bill lowering the exemption age, and said it would lead to more Haredim enlisting, joining national service and entering the workforce [27, 88]. In June 2024, in opposition, he and all Yesh Atid MKs voted against reviving that same bill [89]. The two votes were cast in different Knessets, the first as part of the coalition and the second in the opposition, with the October 7 attack and the war in between. No statement by Lapid explaining the difference between the two votes was found; in June 2024 he said the government was passing laws that encourage avoiding service while speaking in the name of soldiers [104].
  • Change over time: The party now says there should be no compromises with the Haredim on enlistment and that whoever does not enlist will get no state money [7, 34]. In government it backed arrangements that kept some exemptions: the January 2022 bill [27], and, as dated background, the May 2013 cabinet bill fully exempting 1,800 top Torah scholars a year [81].

Closest option(s): Everyone, including Haredim, must serve in the army or civilian national service, and those who don't lose state benefits (universal-service-with-sanctions). This rests on the party's votes and platform since 2024. Its January 2022 bill in government followed a more gradual approach (gradual-targets-by-agreement).

Judicial system

  • Action: In 2023 all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voted against the first readings of the two main Basic Law: The Judiciary amendments: the amendment on the Judicial Selection Committee on 20 February 2023 (passed 63–47) and the amendment limiting the "reasonableness" ground on 11 July 2023 (passed 64–56) [105, 106].
  • Action: Yesh Atid and the rest of the opposition boycotted the final vote on the Judicial Selection Law on 27 March 2025. The law gives politicians more seats on the committee that chooses judges, starting with the next Knesset [35]. The Knesset record of that vote shows 67 for and 1 against; the one vote against is recorded for Yesh Atid MK Mickey Levy, and no other Yesh Atid MK is recorded as voting [95]. Immediately afterwards, Yesh Atid and the Movement for Quality of Government petitioned the Supreme Court against it, and the opposition leaders pledged to repeal it [36].
  • Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page commits to repeal all of the current government's laws changing the judicial system, and to pass a constitution including a Basic Law: Legislation and an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary [7]. (A basic law is a law with constitutional status.)
  • Statement (party's written answer): In its September 2026 answer to Ynet, the Together list said it would "repeal the new law on choosing judges", which it said would politicise the court system. It also said it would pass a Basic Law: Legislation setting how basic laws are made, by what majority, and when the Supreme Court may intervene. It would enact the Declaration of Independence as a basic law and the first chapter of a constitution [37, 38]. At the list launch Bennett also promised an eight-year limit on a prime minister's time in office [33].

Closest option(s): Reverse the recent changes, including the new law on choosing judges (repeal-changes-protect-independence), combined with a written framework that sets out exactly when courts may intervene (broad-agreed-constitutional-framework). The evidence supports both.

October 7 inquiry

  • Action: Lapid and the Yesh Atid MKs who voted backed opposition bills to set up a state commission of inquiry into October 7, which were defeated 51–53 on 17 July 2024 and 47–53 on 1 July 2026 [98, 99].
  • Action: Yesh Atid and the rest of the opposition opposed the coalition's bill for a commission picked through the Knesset. The bill passed its preliminary reading on 24 December 2025 by 53–48 with one abstention, and all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voted against [39, 91]; Lapid said "Netanyahu is running from responsibility" [39]. The opposition boycotted the revised bill's first reading on 6 July 2026, which passed 59–0 according to the Jerusalem Post; no per-member record of that vote was found in the Knesset's vote services when checked on 12 October 2026 [40]. Lapid said the opposition would not take part in "a sham designed solely to whitewash and prevent an investigation" [40].
  • Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page commits to a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack [7]. The Together list's plans also commit to setting one up [41, 42], and at the list's September 2026 campaign launch Bennett said it would be set up "minutes after the government is sworn in" [33].
  • Statement: On 13 July 2026 Lapid said a "Knesset of repair" would "pass a state commission of inquiry" [43].

Closest option(s): The President of the Supreme Court picks the members of a state commission of inquiry under the existing law (state-commission-under-existing-law).

Gaza Strip policy

  • Action: On 3 December 2025 Lapid sponsored a Knesset motion adopting the US 20-point plan to end the Gaza conflict. The plan includes disarming Hamas and hints at a possible future path to Palestinian statehood. The Knesset record lists it as a motion for the agenda, which was approved 39–0 and referred to a committee, with all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voting for it; most of the coalition boycotted the vote [5, 92].
  • Formal commitment: The Together list's security plan calls for "decision instead of containment". On Hamas (a terror organization), it says "Hamas disarms from its weapons – or we disarm it", that Israel will not move "a millimeter" from the yellow line until Hamas is fully disarmed, and that Israel will attack whenever Hamas rearms or trains. It says Israel has no interest in running Gaza, only in making sure it is not a base for the next massacre. It would remove Qatar and Turkey from any involvement in Gaza and bring in Egypt [42]. In August 2026 Bennett, the list's leader, said: "We will remove Turkey and Qatar from Gaza and bring Egypt in instead, while preserving freedom of action in Gaza" [44].
  • Statement: In February 2025 Lapid proposed that Egypt run Gaza's civilian and security affairs for eight years (extendable to 15), with Hamas removed and Gaza demilitarized, in return for the international community paying off Egypt's foreign debt. He said the Palestinian Authority could take part later after "a process of reform and de-radicalization" [45]. In July 2025 he opposed the government's plan for a "humanitarian city" in Rafah, calling it "crazy" and questioning whether residents would be free to leave and what it would cost [46]. Bennett, the list's leader, said in an interview published in July 2026 that the IDF would need to stay in Gaza "for years" [47].

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed. Yesh Atid backed the US plan in a Knesset vote and proposes an Arab-led (Egyptian) administration (advance-international-arrangement). The joint list's plan also demands Hamas's full disarmament by force if needed and Israeli freedom of action (hold-positions-disarmament-first).

Iran, Hezbollah and the region

  • Formal commitment: For Hezbollah (the Iran-backed terror organization in Lebanon), the Together list's plan sets the rule "if Hezbollah strikes Israel, Israel strikes Iran". On Iran it combines preventing nuclear weapons with speeding up the regime's collapse through political, economic, technological and awareness tools. It also pledges to strengthen the Abraham Accords, revive the Negev Summit and pursue normalization with Saudi Arabia [42]. In August 2026 Lapid said Israel should make normalization with Saudi Arabia a "central objective" [44].
  • Statement: On 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Lapid told Reuters he backed Netanyahu's decision to strike, calling it a "just war against evil". He said Iran's ballistic and nuclear programs and, if possible, its leadership should be "obliterated", and thanked President Trump for the United States' leadership of the operation [83]. He later "expressed gratitude to Trump for launching the war with Israel", according to PBS [50].
  • Statement: Lapid criticised the US–Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026, calling it a "diplomatic disaster" and saying Israel "wasn't even at the table" [48]. On 25 May 2026 he called the emerging US–Iran deal a "disaster" that does not deal with enrichment, ballistic missiles or Hezbollah's weapons. He said Israel must keep its freedom of action and not be "completely subordinate to Trump" [49], and that "we are not a vassal state" [50]. On Lebanon he called the ceasefire a "farce" in May 2026 and said: "Either there is a ceasefire or we respond with disproportionate force to every attack against us" [51]. In June 2026, while noting he had once supported the Iran war, he said the current round of fighting "serves no strategic objective of the State of Israel". He said that when war is forced on Israel it must strike "with overwhelming and disproportionate force", but that "war alone cannot become our automatic response to every problem", and said the government had not explained the purpose of the current round of fighting [52].

Closest option(s): Keep up military pressure while using it to reach US-backed deals and peace with Arab countries (force-plus-us-backed-agreements). Lapid's support for the February 2026 strikes, his opposition to the specific 2026 US–Iran deal and the list's "strike Iran" rule also lean towards military-pressure-until-threats-removed.

Judea and Samaria

  • Action: On 22 October 2025 Lapid and the ten other Yesh Atid MKs who voted opposed, at its preliminary reading, a bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to all of Judea and Samaria; it passed 25–24 [53, 93]. On the same day Lapid and 15 other Yesh Atid MKs voted for Avigdor Liberman's separate bill to apply sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim, a large settlement near Jerusalem, and one Yesh Atid MK abstained. It passed its preliminary reading 31–9 with one abstention according to the Knesset record (The Times of Israel reported 32–9) [53, 94].

  • Action: On 22 January 2025, 13 Yesh Atid MKs voted for an opposition bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, which was defeated 32–56. Lapid is not recorded as voting [107].

  • Action: In December 2025 Lapid sponsored the motion adopting the US Gaza plan, which hints at a possible future path to Palestinian statehood [5].

  • Statement: As prime minister, Lapid told the UN General Assembly on 22 September 2022 that a two-state solution was "the right thing for Israel's security, for Israel's economy and for the future of our children", on condition that "a future Palestinian state will be a peaceful one" and not another base for terror threatening Israel [54]. On 26 May 2026 he said "There will be no two-state solution in the coming years", explaining that Israelis believe a Palestinian state could become "another failing terror state on our border". In the same talk he said "settler terror is terror" [21]. Lapid's partner Bennett said in an interview published in July 2026: "I am against a Palestinian state, period." He said his plan is settlement under the law in Area C, and Palestinian Authority administration in Areas A and B under permanent full Israeli security control [47].

  • Formal commitment: No section of Yesh Atid's platform page or the Together list's published plans that were reviewed sets out a final-status position (sovereignty, a Palestinian state or evacuation of settlements). The Together security plan addresses illegal weapons that it says feed terror in Judea and Samaria [7, 42].

  • Change over time: In September 2022, as prime minister, Lapid told the UN that a two-state solution was the right thing for Israel [54]. In May 2026 he said there would be no two-state solution in the coming years [21].

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed. Lapid's 2026 statements point to keeping the current situation for the coming years, without a Palestinian state and without applying sovereignty to all of Judea and Samaria (maintain-current-situation), and the party voted against the comprehensive sovereignty bill. Its votes for applying sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim and the Jordan Valley point to sovereignty over key areas only (partial-sovereignty-area-c). Lapid's stated long-term goal in 2022 was a negotiated two-state agreement (separation-two-states).

Religion and state

  • Action: In 2021, under the coalition Lapid formed [3], then-Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana advanced a kashrut reform through an amendment to the Prohibition of Fraud in Kashrut Law. It allowed licensed private kashrut bodies to issue certificates as an alternative to local rabbis, under regulation by the Chief Rabbinate. The reform was not fully implemented and was reversed by a law passed on 15 July 2026 [56]. Lapid and the Yesh Atid MKs who voted opposed that law at its final reading, which passed 46–41 [102].
  • Action: On 19 November 2025 Lapid and the Yesh Atid MKs who voted backed two private bills titled "Operation of Public Transport on Shabbat". Both were defeated, 39–58 and 43–58 [101].
  • Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page commits to public transport on Shabbat in secular areas of local authorities that want it, and to advancing civil marriage [7]. The Together list's plan includes civil unions registered at the Interior Ministry regardless of religion, gender or sexual orientation. It would let each local authority decide on public transport on Shabbat, recognise international kosher certification, and support state Orthodox conversion "according to Torah law" while giving conversion powers to community rabbis [57]. It also says schools that don't teach the full core curriculum would get no public funding [57, 58].
  • Statement: On 23 March 2026, after the Knesset expanded the powers of rabbinical courts, Lapid said the religious status quo was "dead, buried". He pledged that the opposition would allow mayors to hire Reform and Conservative rabbis, bring in civil marriage, run public transport on Shabbat in secular areas and create kosher certification outside the Chief Rabbinate [59].

Closest option(s): Keep the Rabbinate but let people choose alternatives, with civil unions, local decisions on Shabbat transport and non-Rabbinate kashrut (more-choice-local-decisions).

Cost of living

  • Action: As part of the 2021 budget package, the Bennett–Lapid government passed an agricultural reform led by Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman and Agriculture Minister Oded Forer. It gradually cut tariffs on fruit and vegetables, recognised European standards for produce imports, and added direct support for farmers [55, 60]. Yesh Atid was a member of that coalition, which Lapid had formed [3].
  • Formal commitment: The Together list's plan promises to cut food prices by 30% within three years, bringing the average shopping basket down to the OECD average. Measures include breaking up monopolies along the supply chain, barring a large importer from distributing more than one dominant brand, removing import barriers and gradually cutting tariffs, extending the rule that "what is good for European standards is good for Israeli standards", creating one central food authority, recognising international kosher certification, and paying farmers direct government support [61]. Yesh Atid's platform page proposes cutting the number of ministries and creating only one new one, a ministry to fight the cost of living [7].
  • Statement: Lapid's March 2025 economic plan called for cutting coalition funds and merging ministries, lowering taxes on the middle class, giving regulators more power over competition and allowing freer imports [8].

Closest option(s): Open the market to more competition and imports and break up large companies (open-market-competition-imports), with some emphasis on cutting government spending and middle-class taxes (cut-taxes-and-government-spending).

Housing

  • Dated background (2014; action): As finance minister, Lapid promoted "0% VAT" on a first home. The bill exempted first-time buyers from VAT, with a higher price cap for those who had done military or national service, and passed a first reading 31–18, with one abstention, on 7 July 2014 [97]. The Knesset's legal adviser raised constitutional concerns about treating buyers differently [62]. After Yesh Atid left the government, the government decided on 21 December 2014 to go ahead with the "target price" program without the condition that had tied it to passing the 0% VAT law [63]. The Knesset's database shows the 0% VAT bill stopped at the stage of preparation for its second and third readings and never became law [84].
  • Formal commitment: The Together list's housing plan includes about 100,000 long-term rental homes within a decade, 40% of them subsidised at 30% below market price. It would release land held by the Israel Land Authority and turn the authority into a government company with clear incentives. It promises a local zoning plan within 18 months and a building permit within three months, and to cut urban renewal projects from over a decade to about five years. It also offers an NIS 1 million benefit towards a home for active reservists and sets a national goal of moving one million Israelis to outlying areas within a decade [64, 65].
  • Statement: Lapid's March 2025 economic plan included housing programs for young families and investment in public transport [8].

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed across several options. The plan includes state-backed long-term rental (state-led-affordable-rental), faster planning and land release (speed-up-planning-and-construction), direct help for buyers who served (direct-help-for-buyers) and a push to the periphery (develop-periphery-and-transport).

Crime in Arab society

  • Action: On 10 December 2025 Lapid and all 24 Yesh Atid MKs voted against a private bill by MK Zvika Fogel that passed its preliminary reading 54–41. The bill as tabled would let the National Security Minister, with the Defense Minister's approval, declare a crime organization a terror organization [100, 108].
  • Action: The Bennett–Lapid government adopted Government Resolution 549 in 2021 against crime in Arab society. It funded a "Stop the Bleeding" program in seven Arab communities that combined prevention, policing and community work, with about NIS 2 billion over five years [66]. The same government approved Resolution 550, a five-year economic development plan for Arab society worth about NIS 27 billion [67]. Yoav Segalovitz, then a Yesh Atid MK and a former senior police officer, served as deputy minister for public security in that government; he left Yesh Atid in August 2026 [20].
  • Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page proposes a "national plan to stop crime" together with the police, the Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) "and all arms of government" [7]. The Together list's plan would define crime as a national security threat, set up a cabinet and national project manager to fight it, "bring the Shin Bet into the picture", run a national operation to collect illegal weapons and use "Al Capone" methods to dismantle crime organizations. It sets a target of cutting murders by 30% within four years [68]. The plans reviewed do not mention detention without trial [7, 68].
  • Statement: In November 2025 Lapid blamed Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for a rise in crime. He said: "Most of the murdered women are Jewish. Most of the people harmed by protection rackets are Jewish. Most of the victims of property crimes are Jewish", rejecting the framing of violent crime as mainly a problem in Arab communities [69].

Closest option(s): The evidence is mixed. The party's and the list's 2026 plans support bringing in the Shin Bet alongside the police (part of emergency-powers-shin-bet, but without the detention-without-trial power that option includes), while in December 2025 its MKs voted against a coalition bill to let crime organizations be declared terror organizations. Its record in government combined policing with large investment in Arab communities (invest-in-arab-communities-first). No statement by Lapid or Yesh Atid was found on the July 2026 government decision to move about NIS 497 million from the development plan to the Shin Bet and police [70].

Other notable positions

Constitution and term limits

Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page commits to a constitution for Israel, including term limits [7]. The Together list pledges a constitution based on the Declaration of Independence and an eight-year limit on a prime minister's time in office [33, 41].

Action: On 22 November 2021, in the Bennett–Lapid government, a government bill limiting a prime minister to eight years in office passed its first reading 66–48, with Lapid and the 16 other Yesh Atid MKs who voted in favour [96]. It did not complete its readings before that Knesset dissolved in June 2022 [16, 109].

Education and core curriculum

Formal commitment: Yesh Atid's platform page promises higher teacher pay, thousands of new teachers, classes of no more than 20 pupils and compulsory core studies in all schools [7]. The Together list's plan sets a starting teacher salary of NIS 12,000, a shared core of 60% of studies for every child set by a national education council, and public funding only for schools that teach the full core ("either 100% core or 0% funding"). It would also give local authorities more power over schools [58].

Service-based benefits and reservists

Formal commitment: The Together "Those Who Serve Law" gives reservists and those who served benefits including a home benefit, free daycare for active reservists' children aged 0–3, a 50% discount on electricity, water and property tax for active reservists, free public transport for three years after discharge, a free first degree, and a free second degree for combat soldiers [30, 71].

Northern frontline communities

Formal commitment: The Together list's frontline communities plan offers more income-tax benefits for residents, property-tax discounts of 45% for homes and 39% for businesses, lower corporate tax and investment grants, multi-year budgets, and investment in shelters and security [72].

The Negev and Bedouin communities

Formal commitment: The Together list's Negev plan combines faster development of recognised Bedouin towns, industrial zones, Hebrew-language incentives and pre-army programs with "zero tolerance" enforcement against illegal construction and crime organizations [73]. It applies specifically to the Negev and its Bedouin communities.

LGBT rights

Formal commitment: The Together list pledges a civil partnership law with the full rights of married couples, automatic registration of a biological parent's spouse as a parent, easier adoption, a full ban on conversion therapy, and making incitement against the LGBT community a criminal offense [74].

Women

Formal commitment: The Together list's plan seeks 50% women in senior civil service roles and on the boards of government companies, paternity leave alongside maternity leave, no statute of limitations for sexual offenses against minors, and a fixed NIS 250 million a year for preventing domestic violence [75].

Health

Formal commitment: The Together list pledges dozens of community medical centers within five years, planning the medical workforce years ahead, a desk to bring back Israeli doctors working abroad, double the investment in preventive medicine, and new hospitals or branches in the north and south [76].

Environment

Formal commitment: The Together list pledges a binding, budgeted climate law, a waste law to end landfilling of most waste, stopping routine operation of the oldest coal units at the Orot Rabin power station, faster moves to renewable energy and storage, and legal protection for national ecological corridors [77].

People with disabilities

Formal commitment: The Together list would let people keep 60% of their disability allowance after they start working, and sets targets of 25% accessible taxis and making 100 leading heritage sites accessible [78].

Early childhood

Formal commitment: The Together list promises free supervised daycare for reservists' families, vouchers for families of others who serve, state oversight of early-childhood settings and 20 hours of required monthly training for caregivers [71].

Qatar and foreign relations

Statement: On 24 March 2026 Lapid said he would present a bill declaring Qatar an enemy state [79]. The Together plan includes the same declaration [42]. In August 2026 Lapid said he would restore Israel's bipartisan standing in the United States [44]. In May 2026 he criticised the current government's handling of relations with Europe and Washington [21].

Settler violence

Statement: On 26 May 2026 Lapid said "settler terror is terror… this is Jewish terror", and called the extremists responsible "the greatest gift antisemites around the world could ask for" [21].

Coalition stance

Declared stance (2026):

  • At the launch of the joint list on 26 April 2026, Lapid said: "We are uniting today to win the elections and to establish a Zionist government, strong and stable." Bennett said he would "only rely on Zionist parties for our coalition" and rejected working with Mansour Abbas's Islamist party Ra'am [11]. Calcalist quoted Bennett: "We will establish a government with a huge Zionist majority… and rely on Zionist parties only" [13].
  • In an interview published on 3 July 2026, Bennett, the list's leader, said: "I am with Lapid until the end, I will not sit with Netanyahu" [47]. Bennett also said there would be "no compromises" on enlistment in a government he leads [34].
  • In May 2026 Lapid named Gadi Eisenkot and Avigdor Liberman as partners in his preferred cabinet [21].
  • In August 2026 MK Yoav Segalovitz left Yesh Atid amid reported talks to join Ra'am. Lapid thanked him for his service and made no statement about Ra'am as a partner [20].

Track record of keeping coalition pledges:

  • 2013: After the election, Yesh Atid and Bennett's party negotiated as an alliance and joined Netanyahu's government without the Haredi parties, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported were excluded because they oppose drafting Haredim [15].
  • 2020: Blue and White ran on replacing Netanyahu. When Gantz chose to join Netanyahu's government in March 2020, Lapid refused and split from Gantz to stay in opposition [17, 18].
  • 2021: Lapid formed a coalition that included an Arab party, Ra'am (the United Arab List), alongside right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties [16]. No public pre-election pledge by Lapid in 2021 against sitting with Ra'am was found in the sources reviewed. Change over time: The 2026 list's declared stance is a government that does not rely on Arab parties [11, 13], while the government Lapid formed in 2021 included Ra'am [16]. No statement by Lapid explaining the change was found.

Track record

Yesh Atid has been in government twice. Item by item:

2013–2014 (Netanyahu's government; Lapid as finance minister)

  • Promise: enlistment of Haredim with sanctions. Delivered in law: the Equal Service law with criminal sanctions passed in March 2014. It set rising targets up to 2017, with criminal penalties if the targets were missed [26]. The bill the cabinet approved in 2013 also fully exempted 1,800 top Torah scholars a year [81].
  • Promise: cheaper housing for young couples. Not delivered: the 0% VAT bill passed a first reading in July 2014 but never became law [62, 84].
  • Exit: Netanyahu fired Lapid on 2 December 2014. One of the disputes was Lapid's refusal to drop his housing plan [4].

2021–2022 (Bennett–Lapid government; Lapid as foreign minister, then prime minister)

  • Passing a budget. Delivered: the Knesset passed the first state budget in three years on 4 November 2021 [55], by 61–59 with all 17 Yesh Atid MKs in favour [103].
  • Limiting a prime minister's term. Not completed: the government's bill passed only a first reading [96, 109].
  • Cost of living. Delivered in law: the agricultural reform (tariff cuts, European standards for produce, direct support for farmers) [60] and the kashrut reform [56]. The kashrut reform was never fully implemented and was reversed in July 2026 [56].
  • Arab society. Delivered: Resolution 549 against crime and the Resolution 550 five-year development plan [66, 67].
  • Haredi enlistment. Partial: the coalition's bill lowering the exemption age passed only a first reading before the government fell [27]. In June 2024 Yesh Atid voted against reviving it (see Haredi military enlistment) [89].
  • Diplomacy. Delivered: In October 2022 Lapid's government approved the US-brokered maritime border agreement with Lebanon. The attorney general ruled that it was not subject to the 2014 referendum law, and Lapid chose cabinet approval rather than a Knesset vote [80]. The cabinet gave its final approval on 27 October 2022, clearing the way for Lapid to sign the agreement [85]. As prime minister Lapid stated support for a two-state solution at the UN [54].
  • Stability. The coalition fell in June 2022 after failing to renew the regulations applying Israeli law to Israelis in Judea and Samaria [16].
  • Coalition-line votes. While the party sat in the coalition, its MKs voted with the coalition against five opposition private bills at their preliminary readings [110, 112]. They are labelled by whether the party's 2021 election platform held a matching pledge [111]:
    • Contradiction: The 2021 platform said "we will raise the disability allowances and equalise them with the minimum wage" and that Yesh Atid supports the bill linking those allowances to the minimum wage [111]. On 1 December 2021 five Yesh Atid MKs (Vladimir Beliak, Boaz Toporovsky, Moshe Tur-Paz, Yasmin Friedman and Inbar Bezek) voted against an opposition bill to equalise the disability allowance with the minimum wage, which was defeated 20–22; Lapid, Ben-Ari and Ben Barak are not recorded as voting [112, 113]. It was an opposition bill and the coalition voted against it. No statement by Yesh Atid explaining the vote was found.
    • Action (pledge already enacted): The 2021 platform said "we will pass legislation toughening the punishment for holding illegal weapons, and minimum sentences will be set" [111]. In December 2021 the coalition passed a law setting minimum sentences for holding and dealing in illegal weapons, as a temporary provision [114]. On 11 May 2022 Lapid, Ben-Ari and Ben Barak voted against a further, opposition bill setting minimum sentences for weapons offences, which was defeated 53–61 [110]. Because the pledge had been carried out before that vote, it is recorded as a vote with the coalition and not as a contradiction. No statement by Yesh Atid on the vote was found.
    • Action (no matching pledge): Ben-Ari and Ben Barak voted against a bill to increase the public-housing stock (24 November 2021, defeated 40–44) and a bill to raise child allowances (24 November 2021, defeated 38–43), and Lapid, Ben-Ari and Ben Barak voted against a bill on public-transport discounts for people with disabilities (15 June 2022, defeated 47–52) [110]. The 2021 platform chapters on the economy, welfare and people with disabilities hold no pledge to enlarge the public-housing stock or raise child allowances, and its transport chapter pledges free travel for senior citizens, wider student discounts and accessibility for people with disabilities, but no fare discount for people with disabilities [111], so these are recorded as votes with the coalition and not as contradictions.

In opposition (2023–2026)

  • Petitioned the Supreme Court against the Judicial Selection Law [36].
  • Sponsored the Knesset motion for the agenda adopting the US Gaza plan, approved 39–0 [5, 92].
  • Voted for state commission of inquiry bills, voted against the coalition's October 7 commission bill at its preliminary reading and boycotted the revised bill's first reading [39, 40, 91, 98, 99].
  • Voted against the Torah study basic law; opposition party leaders vowed to repeal it [29, 82, 90].
  • Voted against the comprehensive sovereignty bill but for the Ma'ale Adumim bill [53, 93, 94].

Legal or ethical matters involving leaders

No indictments, convictions or official inquiries involving the party's leaders were found. This research searched Hebrew and English news coverage for criminal investigations, indictments, State Comptroller findings and court rulings involving Yair Lapid and Yesh Atid's leading candidates (Meirav Ben-Ari, Noam Tibon, Meirav Cohen, Ram Ben Barak). The results concerned other people or Lapid's own calls for investigations of others. Lapid's meeting on 5 September 2024 with the State Comptroller's team examining the failures around the October 7 attack is not listed here, because it produced no finding and is not a proceeding against him [86]. Matters concerning the partner party's leader, Naftali Bennett, are covered in that party's research document.

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Information availability

Enough public information exists. Yesh Atid has served in two governments, has a long Knesset voting record, a 2026 platform page, and is covered in detail by the media. Because it runs inside the Together joint list, many 2026 formal commitments are the joint list's plans rather than Yesh Atid's alone. This document labels them separately. The Yesh Atid platform page and the Together plan pages show no date on the page; their dates in the source list come from the pages' publication metadata. The 2026 platform page has no section on Judea and Samaria.