Who they are
Einat Wilf is a writer and former member of the Knesset who chaired its education, culture and sport committee. She was born in Jerusalem in 1970 and grew up in Beit HaKerem, daughter of a teacher and of a researcher in physical chemistry at the Hebrew University. She served as an officer in Unit 8200, then took a degree in political science and art history at Harvard, an MBA at INSEAD and a doctorate at Cambridge.
She advised on investment funds at McKinsey, was a managing partner in Koor Industries' venture capital fund and a research fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute before entering politics. Her first book carried a foreword by Shimon Peres; a second, on saving Israeli education without extra budget, she wrote with her mother. She stood for Labor three times before winning a seat, and left with Ehud Barak and four others to form Independence. She sat on the foreign affairs and defence committee, and in 2012 pressed for UNRWA to count as refugees only those displaced themselves, not their descendants.
Afterwards she spent a decade as a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and wrote The War of Return with Adi Schwartz on the Palestinian refugee question. She registered a party of her own, Oz for Equality in Service, saying she would build a list only if the ideas drew public support, and in 2026 joined Yoaz Hendel's Reservists.
Positions and record
Conscription: Draft everyone first, and strip every benefit and state service from those who refuse.
A Palestinian state: Says she is for it the day Palestinians want a state beside Israel rather than in place of it.
Religion and state: Religious services should be separated from state authority and funding and left to community choice. She has made a Jewish case for public transport on Shabbat, without setting out a plan for transport or marriage.
Gaza: Proposes splitting Gaza in three: a part annexed to Israel, a 'Gaza of war', and a 'Gaza of peace' where reconstruction money depends on giving up refugee status and the claim of return.
Same-sex couples: Supports LGBTQ rights, including Sagi's Laws, the package of bills that would give same-sex couples equal standing in Israeli law.
The Nation-State Law: Wants the 2018 law kept, with a limited amendment to its clause on Jewish settlement that states equality outright.
Where they stand
Breaks with the Reservists line on 7 issues, marked below.