Who they are
Born in Jerusalem in 1983 to parents from Morocco and raised in Mevaseret Zion, Cohen served at Army Radio and read economics at the Hebrew University. She ran the consumer watchdog Public Trust, where she built a campaign to recover money taken from elderly Israelis by telemarketing fraud. She sat on Jerusalem's city council from 2011, entered the Knesset in 2019 and was social equality minister in two governments.
Positions and record
Education: The portfolio she is running for, and her party's declared demand in coalition talks.
Gender equality: Chairs the Knesset committee on the status of women and gender equality.
Older Israelis: Consumer-protection legislation against scams targeting seniors, and pension work.
Social equality: Ran the ministry itself in both of the change-era governments.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.
Judea & Samariaparty lineIsraeli sovereignty in Area C and autonomy in Areas A and B, with no Palestinian state west of the Jordan.
Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation
Gaza & Securityparty lineThe army keeps the right to operate anywhere in Gaza. Egypt takes Turkey and Qatar's place on the Board of Peace overseeing the strip, and Qatar is declared an enemy state.
Deal & disengagementFull military control
Haredi Enlistmentparty lineEveryone is drafted. Those who refuse lose their stipends, National Insurance discounts and rate relief, and 8.8 billion shekels moves to those who serve.
Universal draftPreserve exemptions
Judiciaryparty lineA constitution on the Declaration of Independence, an inquiry into 7 October and an eight-year cap on the premiership, with judicial review settled by broad consensus.
Court can strike lawsKnesset can override
Economyparty lineThe shopping basket 30 per cent cheaper in three years by breaking up the food conglomerates, a single food authority, European standards, and a company opened in a day.
Social spendingFree market
Educationparty lineA national council fixes 60 per cent of every curriculum and funds a school only if it teaches all of it, while heads and town halls take over the daily running.
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Stateparty lineCivil union at the interior ministry regardless of religion or sex, conversion therapy banned, the kashrut monopoly broken, and Shabbat transport left to each town.
Civil / pluralistReligious authority
Nation & Citizenshipparty lineBennett voted for the Nation-State Law. It runs on a constitution on the Declaration of Independence, and offers Bedouin citizens integration or the full force of the state.
Equal citizenshipJewish national state
