Who they are
Ofir Katz was born in 1980 and worked as a political aide to Likud ministers, becoming an adviser to Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat in 2009. He entered the Knesset in 2019. He chairs the coalition, the Likud faction and the Knesset Committee, and previously chaired the Finance Committee and its subcommittee on health funding gaps between the periphery and the centre.
Positions and record
Judiciary: Says the coalition was too soft on judicial reform and will finish the job next term.
Conscription: Counts the Haredi conscription law among the bills he expects to pass next term.
Commission of inquiry: Says the next Knesset will approve a state commission of inquiry into 7 October.
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