Who they are
Kisch was born in 1968 and served as a fighter pilot in the air force, then flew for El Al. He entered the Knesset in 2015 and was deputy health minister through the COVID period. He held the regional cooperation portfolio from 2022 to 2023 and has been education minister since December 2022.
Positions and record
Jewish identity: His Roots programme makes a weekly Bible hour compulsory in every grade from school year 5787.
Judea and Samaria: Chaired the Knesset Land of Israel lobby and filed bills to draw Maale Adumim and Gush Etzion into Jerusalem.
Judiciary: Supported the 2023 overhaul.
Where they stand
Breaks with the party line on 2 issues, marked below.
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
Educationpersonal positionTook the core-studies condition out of the Haredi network funding plan he put to cabinet, and blocked his own staff from giving the High Court compliance data
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Statepersonal positionHis Roots programme makes a weekly Bible hour compulsory in every grade and shuts outside pluralist Judaism programmes out of state schools
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
