Otzma Yehudit
עוצמה יהודית
Otzma Yehudit won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 326,793 votes (5.74%).
Otzma Yehudit is a far-right party, founded on 13 November 2012 as Otzma LeYisrael and led by Itamar Ben-Gvir. It missed the threshold alone in 2013 and with Yachad in 2015.
It then ran inside the Union of Right-Wing Parties in April 2019 and inside the Religious Zionism list in 2021 and 2022. In 2026 it ran alone and won seven seats.
- Leader
- Itamar Ben-Gvir
- Founded
- 13 November 2012
- In the 26th Knesset
- 7 seats
- Joint lists
- Religious Zionist Party, Union of Right-Wing Parties, Yachad
The best result of Otzma Yehudit since 2013 was 7 seats, in the election of 2026.
Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where Otzma Yehudit ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.
On its own listThe whole joint list it ran inside
| Election | List | Letters | Votes | Share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Otzma Yehudit | 326,793 | 5.7% | 7 | |
| 2022 | Religious Zionist Party | ט | 516,470 | 10.8% | 14 |
| 2021 | Religious Zionist Party | ט | 225,641 | 5.1% | 6 |
| September 2019 | Otzma Yehudit | כף | 83,609 | 1.9% | 0 |
| April 2019 | Union of Right-Wing Parties | טב | 159,468 | 3.7% | 5 |
| 2015 | Yachad | קץ | 125,158 | 3.0% | 0 |
| 2013 | Otzma Yehudit | נץ | 66,775 | 1.8% | 0 |
The results are the Central Elections Committee's; 2026 is the committee's official results of 4 November 2026. The committee's results
Otzma Yehudit has 7 members in the 26th Knesset.
Itamar Ben-Gvir
No. 1 on the list
Tally Gotliv
No. 2 on the list
Yitzhak Wasserlauf
No. 3 on the list
Amihai Eliyahu
No. 4 on the list
Limor Son Har-Melech
No. 5 on the list
Yitzhak Kroizer
No. 6 on the list
Hanamel Dorfman
No. 7 on the list
In the election of 2026, Otzma Yehudit took its highest share of the vote in Kiryat Arba, 25.2%.
The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.
- Kiryat Arba25.2%
- Kiryat Mal'akhi22.6%
- Netivot21.0%
- Safed17.2%
- Sderot16.8%
These parties are part of the story of Otzma Yehudit.
- Religious Zionist PartyThe Religious Zionist Party, called Tkuma until 2021, was founded in October 1998 by Hanan Porat and Zvi Hendel, who left the National Religious Party.
- Union of Right-Wing PartiesThe Union of Right-Wing Parties was the joint list of The Jewish Home, Tkuma and Otzma Yehudit for the election of April 2019, in which it won five seats.
- YachadYachad is a party that Eli Yishai, a former leader of Shas, founded ahead of the election of 2015, bringing together Haredi and religious Zionist voters.
Frequently asked questions
Who leads Otzma Yehudit?
Itamar Ben-Gvir leads Otzma Yehudit.
When was Otzma Yehudit founded?
Otzma Yehudit was founded on 13 November 2012.
How many seats does Otzma Yehudit have in the Knesset?
Otzma Yehudit won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 326,793 votes (5.74%).
What were the ballot letters of Otzma Yehudit?
In the election of September 2019, Otzma Yehudit ran on the ballot letters כף.
Sources: English Wikipedia, Otzma Yehudit, Hebrew Wikipedia, עוצמה יהודית, the Central Elections Committee.