Who they are
David Amsalem, known as Dudi, was born in 1960. He spent about twenty years at the Jerusalem Municipality, latterly heading its city-appearance division, after posts in the Finance Ministry, the National Insurance Institute's budget division and the Income Tax Commission. He entered the Knesset in 2015, was coalition chairman from 2017 to 2019 and communications minister from 2019 to 2020.
Positions and record
Judicial appointments: Filed a bill putting judicial appointments under the government with Knesset approval.
Supreme Court: Says the court discriminates against Mizrahi Jews and that its justices are detached.
Attorney general: Called the attorney general the most dangerous person in Israel and demanded her removal.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.
Judea & Samariaparty lineSovereignty over every part of the Land of Israel, pursued through budgets and construction rather than annexation bills, and no Palestinian state.
Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation
Gaza & Securityparty lineNo withdrawal on anyone else's timetable: it slowed and limited the withdrawal in the American plan and made it turn on Hamas disarming first.
Deal & disengagementFull military control
Haredi Enlistmentparty lineIt governs with the Haredi parties and in July 2026 barred the arrest of draft evaders, while its own aims require regular service of every citizen.
Universal draftPreserve exemptions
Judiciaryparty lineThe judicial selection law takes effect with the next Knesset, giving the coalition the decisive voice in appointments. No override clause is sought.
Court can strike lawsKnesset can override
Economyparty lineA national liberal movement for the free market and social equality together, with government out of the economy as far as it can go.
Social spendingFree market
Educationparty lineJewish tradition taught through the schools, and the core-studies rule kept on the books without ever being used to cut a budget.
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Stateparty lineThe religious status quo, governed with its Haredi partners, alongside a guarantee of freedom of conscience.
Civil / pluralistReligious authority
Nation & Citizenshipparty lineThe Nation-State Law and Jewish self-determination, set beside equal rights for every citizen and the integration of minorities into the state.
Equal citizenshipJewish national state