Likud primaries

Likud lawmakers, ministers forbidden from running in regional primary slots, Likud court rules

The ruling blocked a move promoted by Netanyahu and the chairman of the party’s Constitution Committee, Minister Haim Katz, which had been approved by just a five votes majority.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah attend the Likud Party's election campaign opening event in Jerusalem, Jan 21, 2020.

‘Not a one-man party’: Likud court blocks wartime cancellation of primaries

Elections for the Likud Central Committee, in the south Tel Aviv district. November 25, 2025.

Likud panel votes to expand Netanyahu’s control over party list, wartime primary alternative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for Zionist leader Theodor Herzl at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 5, 2026.

Likud panel expands Netanyahu’s control over party list to reserve eight slots ahead of primaries


A look at the Anglos running for a spot on the Likud Party's list

Why is this Likud primary different than other Likud primaries?

Likud ballots

Gallant: Gantz's speech did not reflect his beliefs

Yoav Gallant explained that "the Likud is the only response to Benny Gantz and to what the Left represents."

Collage of Benny Gantz unveiling his party platform and Yoav Gallant speaking at the annual JPost conference.

Israeli-Arab Muslim woman vying for non-Jewish spot in Likud primaries

Dema Taya hails from Kalansuwa in central Israel and lives in Kafr Manda in the Galilee.

Dema Taya, Muslim-Israeli candidate running in Likud prmaries

Likud deputy minister enlists Elor Azaria in primary campaign

Mazuz gave Azaria a paid position on his campaign, and called him “intelligent and diligent,” Channel 12 reported.

Elor Azaria wearing a shirt with the Star of David as he enters prison in August, 2017

New Likudniks won’t back down: Netanyahu is adding to corruption

Members tell ‘Post’ that Likud can be more attractive if they abandon cult of personality, go back to being liberal party of the people.

New Likudnik primaries candidates L-R Meiri, Klarman, Weisman-Simhony, Assaf Rothem, Hirshman, and Toyerman take a selfie outside the party's court last week.

Exclusive: Immigrant candidates petition against new Likud primaries rule

Netanyahu’s proposal for primary structure to go to a central committee vote next week; Kara, 10 current MKs likely to be left out.

A sign on a Jerusalem bus proclaims, ‘The Likud is strength.’

Australian tycoon Gutnick denies Bennett conspiracy after backing Shaked

Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett was reacting to an exclusive report that Ausralian diamond mining tycoon Joseph Gutnick had endorsed Shaked to replace Netanyahu when he leaves office.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Joseph Gutnick

Primaries bill set for final vote without controversial clause

“Knesset members should represent the interests of the public and not of those who write them checks,” says Coalition chairman.

The Labor primary election, July 4 2017.

Knesset advances controversial primaries bill

The bill would provide funding even for those parties that do not hold primaries – to the tune of NIS 50,000 for every mandate they received in the most recent national election.

David Amsalem

War against new Likudniks spreads to US

The party has embarked on a series of steps against the so-called New Likudniks, a group of centrists who want the party to become less extreme.

Likud supporters celebrate at party headquarters on Election Day