Otzma in a sentence

Netanyahu has an extremely troubling coalition of far-right, openly racist parties including Otzma Yehudit and Yisrael Beiteinu.

Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir (R) and Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai attend a Hanukkah ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, December 19, 2022.

Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer arrives at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on June 14, 2023.

Religious-based parties such as the Religious Zionist Party and Otzma Yehudit pushed the government to inflict more damage on Palestinians and to hold back humanitarian aid.

Spurned by the center right, Netanyahu saw the far right as the only way he could return to power in the 2022 election and engineered a merger between Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit to ensure that they amassed as many votes as possible.

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz lays into Prime Minister Netanyahu after the extremist Otzma Yehudit party said it had reached a deal with Likud to drop out of the elections, but the premier reneged on it.

Responding to the Otzma Yehudit revelation, Likud said there were “legal difficulties” with the deal initially reached, but that it was working to solve them before Monday’s election.

The far-right Otzma Yehudit party, which had faced pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end its election run, declared on Sunday that it would press on with its campaign.

But all has not gone smoothly for Otzma Yehudit, whose leader Michael Ben Ari was also running until he was disqualified by the Supreme Court for statements it ruled were incitement to racism.

Democratic Camp lawmaker Tamar Zandberg at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions to disqualify the extremist Otzma Yehudit party from running in the September elections, on August 22, 2019.

National Union is a member of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, which also includes Jewish Home and the extremist Otzma Yehudit faction.

Otzma did not pass the 3.25% electoral threshold to obtain seats in the Knesset.

The Jewish Home party votes on a pre-election alliance with Otzma Yehudit in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019.

The next item on Netanyahu’s agenda is the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party, which, contrary to his expectations, increasingly seems likely to pass the 3.25 percent threshold and send four of its representatives to the Knesset.

Two of his friends from the Otzma Yehudit party, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bentzi Gopstein, never served in the army at all.

With the last three polls showing Otzma Yehudit makes it into Knesset, passing the minimum electoral threshold and earning four seats.

Young Israel synagogues in Metro Detroit protest Otzma Yehudit statement by national Young Israel president.