Who they are
Almog Cohen was born in 1988, served as a fighter in the police Yasam unit and owned a Beersheba restaurant. He organised armed civilian response teams in the Negev in 2021 and entered the Knesset in 2022 on the joint Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit list. He left it in April 2025 under the Norwegian Law on becoming deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office, and joined Likud on 12 August 2026.
Positions and record
Negev crime: Initiated the law widening penalties for extortion and protection rackets.
Terrorism: Sponsored the law allowing deportation of a terrorist's family members who backed the attack.
Negev airport: Pushed to build a civilian airport at Nevatim, briefly resigning from the government over it.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.
Judea & Samariaparty lineSovereignty over every part of the Land of Israel, pursued through budgets and construction rather than annexation bills, and no Palestinian state.
Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation
Gaza & Securityparty lineNo withdrawal on anyone else's timetable: it slowed and limited the withdrawal in the American plan and made it turn on Hamas disarming first.
Deal & disengagementFull military control
Haredi Enlistmentparty lineIt governs with the Haredi parties and in July 2026 barred the arrest of draft evaders, while its own aims require regular service of every citizen.
Universal draftPreserve exemptions
Judiciaryparty lineThe judicial selection law takes effect with the next Knesset, giving the coalition the decisive voice in appointments. No override clause is sought.
Court can strike lawsKnesset can override
Economyparty lineA national liberal movement for the free market and social equality together, with government out of the economy as far as it can go.
Social spendingFree market
Educationparty lineJewish tradition taught through the schools, and the core-studies rule kept on the books without ever being used to cut a budget.
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Stateparty lineThe religious status quo, governed with its Haredi partners, alongside a guarantee of freedom of conscience.
Civil / pluralistReligious authority
Nation & Citizenshipparty lineThe Nation-State Law and Jewish self-determination, set beside equal rights for every citizen and the integration of minorities into the state.
Equal citizenshipJewish national state