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Yachad

יחד

Yachad has no seat in the 26th Knesset, elected on 27 October 2026.

Yachad 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. In 2015 it ran with Otzma Yehudit and fell just short of the 3.25% threshold.

It withdrew about two weeks before the election of April 2019.

Leader
Eli Yishai
Founded
2014
Made up of
Otzma Yehudit

Yachad has not passed the threshold on a list of its own since 2013.

Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where Yachad ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.

ElectionListVotesSeats
2015Yachad125,1580

The results are the Central Elections Committee's; 2026 is the committee's official results of 4 November 2026. The committee's results

In the election of 2015, Yachad took its highest share of the vote in Netivot, 19.4%.

The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.

  1. Netivot19.4%
  2. Safed16.1%
  3. Kiryat Mal'akhi15.9%
  4. Beitar Illit14.1%
  5. El'ad14.1%

These parties are part of the story of Yachad.

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Frequently asked questions

Who leads Yachad?

Eli Yishai leads Yachad.

When was Yachad founded?

Yachad was founded in 2014.

How many seats does Yachad have in the Knesset?

Yachad has no seat in the 26th Knesset, elected on 27 October 2026.

What were the ballot letters of Yachad?

In the election of 2015, Yachad ran on the ballot letters קץ.

Sources: English Wikipedia, Yachad (political party), Hebrew Wikipedia, יחד (אלי ישי), the Central Elections Committee.