ISRAEL’S POLITICAL PARTIES THE JOINT LIST LABOR BLUE AND WHITE LIKUD YEMINA Alliance of Arab and leftist parties Old party under new left-wing leadership Rump center-right party Israel’s largest right-wing party Far-right religious nationalist party Two-State Solution: Supports1 Two-State Solution: Supports Two-State Solution: Supports2 Two-State Solution: Opposes4 Two-State Solution: Opposes Leader: Ayman Odeh Leader: Merav Michaeli Leader: Benny Gantz Leader: Benjamin Netanyahu Leader: Naftali Bennett MERETZ YESH ATID YISRAEL BEITEINU NEW HOPE RELIGIOUS ZIONIST PARTY Social-democratic leftist party Centrist party challenging Netanyahu Secular nationalist party catering to Soviet immigrants Right-wing party led by a Likud defector Union of far-right and racist Kahanist parties Two-State Solution: Supports Two-State Solution: Supports Two-State Solution: Supports3 Two-State Solution: Opposes Two-State Solution: Opposes Leader: Nitzan Horowitz Leader: Yair Lapid Leader: Avigdor Liberman Leader: Gideon Saar Leader: Bezalel Smotrich 1 The Joint List supports a two-state solution, but one of its constituent factions, Balad, takes a more ambiguous position. SECTORAL AND ULTRA-ORTHODOX PARTIES 2Blue and White leans supportive of two states, but avoids taking a firm stance, and Benny Gantz has undertaken contradictory messages and actions SHAS as defense minister. Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) ultra-Orthodox party Two-State Solution: Ambiguous5 Leader: Aryeh Deri 3Avigdor Liberman supports a version of a two-state solution in which Israeli Arab muncipalities are incorporated into a Palestinian state, something most Israeli Arabs and politicians on the Israeli center-left oppose. 4Likud opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state and its central committee endorsed annexation in 2017. Prime Minister Netanyahu endorsed annexation in 2019. He also supports the Trump plan, which nominally calls for a two-state solution, but in practice leaves Israel with overriding control of UNITED ARAB LIST (RA’AM) UNITED TORAH JUDAISM Conservative Islamist breakaway from the Joint List Union of Ashkenazi (East European) ultra-Orthodox parties the West Bank. Two-State Solution: Supports Two-State Solution: Ambiguous5 Leader: Mansour Abbas Leaders: Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Gafni 5Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties lack a firm stance on the two-state solution, prioritizing religious and social issues over a position on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict..