Likud party

Likud postpones primaries to August amid debate over Netanyahu’s influence on party list

While no decision has been announced on allowing Netanyahu to control the first slots, the updated rules and procedures for the primaries are expected to be released on Thursday.

The Likud Constitution Committee, headed by the Chairman of the Likud Central Committee, Chairman of the Constitution Committee, Minister Haim Katz, has now convened announcing that the date of the primaries will be held on: 4.8.2026
Transportation Minister Miri Regev addresses the Knesset, January 21, 2026; illustrative.

Miri Regev says Likud will go to primaries, but 'Netanyahu's voice will be heard in the process'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conferene at the Prime Minister's office in Jerursalem, June 15, 2026

Likud tensions rise as Netanyahu threatens to leave over 10 reserved election slots

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and finance minister Moshe Kahlon.

Netanyahu pushes to reserve seats for Sa'ar, Kahlon in top ten Likud slots - report


Netanyahu uses empty voting centers photos from 2019 to encourage voting

The message shared by the Likud leader stated that right-wing voting percentages were down used photos from the 2019 elections to illustrate his point.

 RIGHT: Photo from the September 2019 elections shared by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. LEFT: The same image is shared again by Netanyahu, only this time he claimed it to be from November 2022.

Israel Elections: Upcoming vote is crucial to save the courts from Likud - opinion

The Likud aim is authority without limits and power without limitations. Such governance will endanger the foundations of our young republic and shall strip us from the defenses of our liberties.

 THE WRITER speaks at a New Hope election campaign event in Rishon Lezion, last year.

Ben-Gvir is a danger to Israel and he is what the election is about - comment

He is a threat to the future of Israel’s fragile democratic character, and if he gets his way – and Netanyahu gets his 61 seats – these two men will have the ability to demolish the country.

 MK Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party surrouned visits in Beit Orot, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur, October 13, 2022.

Netanyahu accused of using Likud party resources to promote new book

Printouts were attached to the complaint that indicated the use of the party's platforms for advertising a private book published by Netanyahu.

 Leader of the Opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media  in Tel Aviv on October 3, 2022.

Elections 2022: Amichai Chikli disqualified from running on Likud list

Amichai Chikli's candidacy was barred after MK Gaby Lasky petitioned the Central Election Committee, claiming that he did not resign early enough to be allowed to run on a different list.

 AMICHAI CHIKLI: Chose the long short path.

Netanyahu greeted with insults, jeers on visit to B'nei Brak

Locals boo'd Netanyahu and chanted insults, calling him a heretic in both modern Hebrew (kofer) and mishnaic Hebrew (apicorus).

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU attends a conference in Jerusalem, last week.

Israel Elections: Benjamin Netanyahu is poised for a 2022 victory - opinion

This time it seems that the conditions for obtaining a majority in the Knesset of 61 MKs, and even more, are more favorable than ever.

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU attends a conference in Jerusalem, last week.

'I'm not funding Hezbollah' - Lapid fires back at Netanyahu

Netanyahu posted a video saying that the deal, which the US is in the midst of brokering, would allow funding to Hezbollah and increase the attack against Israel.

 Israeli foreign minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid walks next to Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at the assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021.

What are questions that remain for Israel's political parties - analysis

With the primary season over, which questions remain for Israel's political parties?

 A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015

Inner tension in Likud spills over two weeks after primary

Reports of irregularities are still being examined.

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset.