Ayelet shaked

The Israeli Right needs a merger, not another messiah - opinion

Israel’s Right does not lack voters. It does not lack ideas. It does not even lack leaders. What it lacks is the humility to put them on one ballot.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel speaks to the media as she announces her resignation as Deputy Foreign Minister at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026.
Ayelet Shaked attends the Tel Aviv conference, at Tel Aviv University on May 7, 2025.

Edelstein, Shaked approached about party targeting dissatisfied right-wing, modern Orthodox voters

Israeli journalist Amit Segal speaks during the Jabotinsky conference in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024.

Amit Segal claims Netanyahu offered him fourth spot on Likud list, 'any ministerial role' in 2022

Ayelet Shaked attends the Tel Aviv conference, at Tel Aviv University on May 7, 2025.

Ayelet Shaked calls for right-wing alliance amid shifting dynamics in anti-Netanyahu bloc


Israel elections: Are we barreling toward a sixth election round? - analysis

This time around, Netanyahu is not going anywhere. As a result, the country is staring down the barrel of yet another deadlocked election.

 WHO WILL greet Biden? Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid or Benjamin Netanyahu?

Israel Elections: Decisions to be made before parties give their lists

Questions involving a number of Israeli political parties will need to be decided until Thursday's deadline, and could lead to last-minute drama.

A voter in Jerusalem in the last Knesset election on April 9

Ayelet Shaked and Yoaz Hendel part ways days before electoral deadline

Just a little over a month after launching a joint campaign together, Ayelet Shaked is parting ways with Yoaz Hendel.

 Interior Minister and head of the Zionist Spirit Ayelet Shaked, and the Minister of Communications Yoaz Handel hold a press conference in which they reveal Amitai Porat, number 3 of  list of the Zionist Spirit on August 21, 2022 at Hamacabia Village in Ramat Gan.

Why did Jonathan Pollard swipe his political endorsement? - opinion

Jonathan Pollard's Hebrew isn't fluent enough for him to have been fully cognizant of the content of Ayelet Shaked’s numerous newspaper, radio and TV interviews.

JONATHAN POLLARD arrives at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City in 2017.

A quarter of Israelis still unsure who to vote for, poll finds

More than twice as many coalition voters in 2021 say they will change blocs than opposition backers.

Illustrative: A voting box in the an Israeli election in 2015.

Israel elections: Both blocs unable to form coalition - poll

The bloc opposing Netanyahu is projected to earn 56 seats, while the bloc supporting him would earn 59 seats.

 An empty Knesset plenum on October 4, 2021.

Aviv Geffen, icon of Israeli left, apologizes during West Bank concert for denouncing settlers

Onstage, Geffen attributed his evolution to what he said was a friendship with Ayelet Shaked, a right-wing politician who is currently Israel's minister of the interior.

Aviv Geffen in concert via livestream, June 2020

Israel elections: Jonathan Pollard withdraws endorsement of Ayelet Shaked

Ayelet Shaked is the leader of the Zionist Spirit party that she formed with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel.

JONATHAN POLLARD arrives at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City in 2017.

Israel elections: Why is Zionist Spirit so confident it will pass threshold? - analysis

Out of 23 polls taken since the party's formation on July 27, it failed to pass the electoral threshold in 18 of them, according to "Hamadad", a website that tracks poll results.

 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel launch the Zionist Spirit party

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

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

Illustrative: A voting box in the an Israeli election in 2015.