Union of Right-Wing Parties
The Union of Right-wing Parties (Hebrew: איחוד מפלגות הימין, Ihud Miflagot HaYamin) was a short-lived electoral alliance of right-wing to far-right religious Zionist parties which included The Jewish Home, Otzma Yehudit, and Tkuma. The list was created ahead of the April 2019 Israeli legislative election, after the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged the Jewish Home alliance to accept Otzma Yehudit as part of its list for the April election, to avoid losing votes for the right-wing bloc. The alliance gained five seats in the April election.
Union of Right-wing Parties איחוד מפלגות הימין | |
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| Leader | Rafi Peretz |
| Founded | 21 February 2019 |
| Dissolved | 14 July 2020 |
| Headquarters | Airport City, Israel |
| Ideology | Religious Zionism Religious conservatism National conservatism Social conservatism Orthodox interests Settler interests Factions: Ultranationalism |
| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| Religion | Orthodox Judaism |
| National affiliation | Yamina (2019, 2020) |
| Member parties | Jewish Home National Union Otzma Yehudit (2019) |
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| Website | |
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Otzma Yehudit left the union on 5 July 2019, citing disagreements with the party, such as the refusal of URWP members to resign to allow Itamar Ben-Gvir to become a Knesset member. In addition, Otzma was unwilling to leave Baruch Marzel and Ben-Zion Gopstein off the electoral slate, as Rafi Peretz demanded.
For the September 2019 election, the URWP ran on a joint list, called Yamina, with the New Right, to get both to pass the 3.25% threshold to enter the Knesset, after the New Right failed to pass the threshold in the April election. The parties later split, though Yamina re-formed for the 2020 Israeli legislative election.