Yoaz Hendel

Tropper-Hendel alliance to demand National Security Ministry portfolio in next gov't

Former ministers Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel vowed at the launch of The Zionist Home-The Reservists party to establish a “broad Zionist government” if they were to join a coalition.

Former ministers Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel unveil the platform of their newly launched The Zionist Home-The Reservists party on August 5, 2026.
Photo illustration | Potential center-right political players Dedi Simchi, Ayelet Shaked, Yoaz Hendel, Gilad Erdan, Ofer Winter, Benny Gantz and Yuli Edelstein.

Editor's Notes: The argument splitting religious-Zionist households before Israel’s election

Chairman of the “Together” party and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026.

Bennett losing ground as Eisenkot, Netanyahu neck-and-neck for upcoming elections - poll

Yoaz Hendel, head of the Reservists' Party and a former minister, holds a press conference outside Kibbutz Retamim in the central Negev Desert, southern Israel, in February, 2026.

Two neighbors, four seats, and the one that decides Israel's next government - analysis


Netanyahu has finally removed 'liberal' from Likud's identity - opinion

It is time to remove “Liberal” from the party name. Today, the Likud stands for one thing and one thing only: how to keep its leader out of court and jail.

 Head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem this week.

Israel's Yoaz Hendel: Meet the outgoing politician who's still a good man - analysis

Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel's announcement that he is temporarily leaving politics shows that decency, integrity and getting things done are not enough.

 Yoaz Hendel, Minister of Communications, at a Knesset cabinet meeting on July 10th 2022.

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel drops out of election as lists consolidate

Hendel initially parted ways with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked from their Zionist Spirit Party just four days before the deadline to submit electoral lists for the 25th Knesset.

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

Israel elections: Ayelet Shaked to spearhead Jewish Home list

The interior minister joined forces with the faction she left along with former prime minister Naftali Bennett back in 2018.

 An election campaign poster of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, in Jerusalem, September 12, 2022

Netanyahu is the problem, not the solution -Yoaz Hendel

"For the past three years there has been political chaos," Hendel said at the Jerusalem Post's New York conference.

 Israeli minister of Communications Yoaz Hendel at a conference with supporters in Shoham on July 12, 2022.

Is the Shaked-Bennett era over? -analysis

The two stuck together through thick and thin for over a decade, but it seems that in the jungle that is Israeli politics, their roads have finally diverged.

 Yamina's Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked seen in the plenum hall of the Israeli parliament during the voting in the presidential elections, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021

Israel Elections: Decisions to be made before parties give their lists

Questions involving a number of Israeli political parties will need to be decided until Thursday's deadline, and could lead to last-minute drama.

A voter in Jerusalem in the last Knesset election on April 9

Ayelet Shaked and Yoaz Hendel part ways days before electoral deadline

Just a little over a month after launching a joint campaign together, Ayelet Shaked is parting ways with Yoaz Hendel.

 Interior Minister and head of the Zionist Spirit Ayelet Shaked, and the Minister of Communications Yoaz Handel hold a press conference in which they reveal Amitai Porat, number 3 of  list of the Zionist Spirit on August 21, 2022 at Hamacabia Village in Ramat Gan.

'Right-wing people who respect the state' are how Zionist Spirit will win - Hendel

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yoaz Hendel explains how the Zionist Spirit will cross the electoral threshold.

 YOAZ HENDEL: There is no unity government without the Likud. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Why did Jonathan Pollard swipe his political endorsement? - opinion

Jonathan Pollard's Hebrew isn't fluent enough for him to have been fully cognizant of the content of Ayelet Shaked’s numerous newspaper, radio and TV interviews.

JONATHAN POLLARD arrives at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City in 2017.