Who they are
Haim Katz was born in 1947 and chaired the workers' organisation at Israel Aerospace Industries until he became a minister in 2015. He entered the Knesset in 1999 and was labour and welfare minister from 2015 to 2019. He chairs the Likud Center. In December 2021, under a plea bargain, he was convicted of conspiracy to achieve a lawful aim by improper means, with no moral turpitude attached.
Positions and record
Tourism spending: Wants tourism money directed to peripheral areas and to Judea and Samaria.
Workers' rights: Built his record on pension law and workers' committee power over three decades.
Where they stand
Breaks with the party line on 1 issue, marked below.
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
Economypersonal positionHeaded the Israel Aerospace workers organisation for 22 years, then as welfare minister raised disability allowances in law in 2018
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