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Yisrael Beiteinu

ישראל ביתנו

Yisrael Beiteinu won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 337,450 votes (5.93%).

Likud: 27Yashar: 21Together: 12Joint List: 11The Democrats: 8Ra'am: 8Yisrael Beiteinu: 7Otzma Yehudit: 7United Torah Judaism: 7Shas: 6Religious Zionist Party: 67of the 120 seats
Yisrael Beiteinu won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 2026.

Yisrael Beiteinu is a secular right-wing party that Avigdor Lieberman founded in 1999 and has led ever since. It began as the party of immigrants from the former Soviet Union and has since widened its appeal.

It won 15 seats in 2009, its most. It ran with Likud in 2013, and Lieberman has since become a prominent opponent of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Avigdor Lieberman
Portrait after a photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr, U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain
Leader
Avigdor Lieberman
Founded
1999
In the 26th Knesset
7 seats

The best result of Yisrael Beiteinu since 2013 was 8 seats, in the election of September 2019.

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

31
6
5
8
7
7
6
7
20132015Apr 2019Sep 20192020202120222026

On its own listThe whole joint list it ran inside

ElectionListVotesSeats
2026Yisrael Beiteinu337,4507
2022Yisrael Beiteinu213,6876
2021Yisrael Beiteinu248,3707
2020Yisrael Beiteinu263,3657
September 2019Yisrael Beiteinu310,1548
April 2019Yisrael Beiteinu173,0045
2015Yisrael Beiteinu214,9066
2013Likud Yisrael Beiteinu885,05431

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

Yisrael Beiteinu has 7 members in the 26th Knesset.

  • Avigdor Lieberman

    Avigdor Lieberman

    No. 1 on the list

  • Rafi Ben Shitrit

    Rafi Ben Shitrit

    No. 2 on the list

  • Talya Lankri

    No. 3 on the list

  • Oded Forer

    Oded Forer

    No. 4 on the list

  • Yulia Malinovsky

    Yulia Malinovsky

    No. 5 on the list

  • Sharon Sharabi

    No. 6 on the list

  • Hamad Amar

    Hamad Amar

    No. 7 on the list

All 120 members of the 26th Knesset

In the election of 2026, Yisrael Beiteinu took its highest share of the vote in Yanuh-Jat, 37.8%.

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

  1. Yanuh-Jat37.8%
  2. Hurfeish31.4%
  3. Beit Jann30.4%
  4. Yarka25.1%
  5. Julis24.7%

These parties are part of the story of Yisrael Beiteinu.

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Frequently asked questions

Who leads Yisrael Beiteinu?

Avigdor Lieberman leads Yisrael Beiteinu.

When was Yisrael Beiteinu founded?

Yisrael Beiteinu was founded in 1999.

How many seats does Yisrael Beiteinu have in the Knesset?

Yisrael Beiteinu won 7 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 337,450 votes (5.93%).

What were the ballot letters of Yisrael Beiteinu?

In the election of 2022, Yisrael Beiteinu ran on the ballot letters ל.

Sources: English Wikipedia, Yisrael Beiteinu, Hebrew Wikipedia, ישראל ביתנו, the Central Elections Committee.