United Torah Judaism
יהדות התורה
United Torah Judaism won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 312,632 votes (5.49%).
United Torah Judaism is the joint list of the two Ashkenazi Haredi parties, Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah, first formed in 1992. The two split in 2004 and came back together in 2006.
Unlike Shas and the Religious Zionist Party, it is not a Zionist party. It won eight seats in April 2019, its most.
- Founded
- 1992
- In the 26th Knesset
- 7 seats
- Made up of
- Agudat Yisrael, Degel HaTorah
The best result of United Torah Judaism since 2013 was 8 seats, in the election of April 2019.
Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where United Torah Judaism ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.
| Election | List | Letters | Votes | Share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | United Torah Judaism | 312,632 | 5.5% | 7 | |
| 2022 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 280,194 | 5.9% | 7 |
| 2021 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 248,391 | 5.6% | 7 |
| 2020 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 274,437 | 6.0% | 7 |
| September 2019 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 268,775 | 6.1% | 7 |
| April 2019 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 249,049 | 5.8% | 8 |
| 2015 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 210,143 | 5.0% | 6 |
| 2013 | United Torah Judaism | ג | 195,892 | 5.2% | 7 |
The results are the Central Elections Committee's; 2026 is the committee's official results of 4 November 2026. The committee's results
United Torah Judaism has 7 members in the 26th Knesset.
Ya'akov Asher
No. 1 on the list
Yitzhak Goldknopf
No. 2 on the list
Yitzhak Pindrus
No. 3 on the list
Meir Porush
No. 4 on the list
Moshe Rosenthal
No. 5 on the list
Eli Stark
No. 6 on the list
Yehuda Weisfish
No. 7 on the list
In the election of 2026, United Torah Judaism took its highest share of the vote in Modi'in Illit, 76.7%.
The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.
- Modi'in Illit76.7%
- Beitar Illit64.3%
- Bnei Brak60.4%
- Rekhasim43.7%
- Beit Shemesh41.0%
These parties are part of the story of United Torah Judaism.
- Agudat YisraelAgudat Yisrael is a Haredi party that began in 1912 as a movement of Orthodox Jews in Katowice, then part of the German Empire.
- Degel HaTorahDegel HaTorah is an Ashkenazi Haredi party that Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach founded for the election of 1988, after he left Agudat Yisrael.
- ShasShas is the Haredi party of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.
Frequently asked questions
When was United Torah Judaism founded?
United Torah Judaism was founded in 1992.
How many seats does United Torah Judaism have in the Knesset?
United Torah Judaism won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 312,632 votes (5.49%).
What were the ballot letters of United Torah Judaism?
In the election of 2022, United Torah Judaism ran on the ballot letters ג.
Sources: English Wikipedia, United Torah Judaism, Hebrew Wikipedia, יהדות התורה, the Central Elections Committee.