Who they are
Eli Gino is a reserve colonel who spent about 27 years in the Givati Brigade, commanded its reconnaissance battalion in the 2014 Gaza war and has been the brigade’s chief of staff in the reserves since October 2023.
He grew up in Jerusalem and joined Givati in 1997. Ofer Winter commanded the brigade while Gino led its reconnaissance battalion, and Gino says he fought alongside him in complex battles. On 1 August 2014 Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was abducted in Rafah in the battalion’s sector, and Gino has said he understood at once that a soldier of his had been taken. He was later deputy commander of the brigade and then deputy commander of the 80th Division, which holds the Egyptian border.
He returned to the brigade after 7 October 2023 as its chief of staff in the reserves and has logged more than 1,000 reserve days across the fronts of the war. He comments on security in the Israeli media, and in 2026 he joined Ofer Winter’s Amcha Israel.
Positions and record
Gaza and the fallen: Frames Gaza through the recovery of soldiers' bodies, arguing Israel should not have let Gaza prosper for a decade while two soldiers were held there: "not even for a scrap of a soldier should life be allowed there."
The army after 7 October: Called Winter's forced discharge a disgrace and said the system moved aside a man who thought differently. Says values must come before strategic calculation or "we will get a different army".
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.
Judea & Samariaparty lineJudea and Samaria an inseparable part of the Jewish homeland: no Palestinian state, the Palestinian Authority disarmed but for police weapons, and Jewish communities strengthened
Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation
Gaza & Securityparty lineVoluntary emigration for Gazans who want to leave, to countries willing to take them, with the terror groups kept from rebuilding and any war costing the enemy territory.
Deal & disengagementFull military control
Haredi Enlistmentparty lineA Basic Law: Service puts every citizen in the army or in national or civilian service, with a track kept for outstanding Torah scholars as the army's needs allow.
Universal draftPreserve exemptions
Judiciaryparty lineA supreme appellate court to hear appeals against the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's job split in two, and legal advisers kept from tying soldiers' hands
Court can strike lawsKnesset can override
Economyparty lineMove power from concentrated interests to consumers, workers and entrepreneurs: break up monopolies, cut regulation and bureaucracy, and back small and medium businesses.
Social spendingFree market
Educationparty lineOne national standard and a full core curriculum in every school system, no state money for anti-Zionist schools, and principals given charge of hiring and programmes.
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Stateparty lineTradition by love, not coercion, from a slate of religious, traditional and secular candidates; no stated policy on civil marriage, conversion, Shabbat or the rabbinate
Civil / pluralistReligious authority
Nation & Citizenshipparty lineA home for every Jew in the world; Arab citizens who want the country's good
Equal citizenshipJewish national state
