Running for deputy foreign minister
In a signed column on 19 July 2026, Moatti says she would be honoured to serve as deputy foreign minister in the next government. In a Ynet interview on 14 January 2019, she named deputy education minister and then education minister as her ambitions; no current restatement of that education target was verified.
Who they are
Moatti was born in Netanya in 1980 and left school to work. She later completed her matriculation and studied at the Open University. She opened Hamitbachon Communications in 2010 and advised Reuven Rivlin’s 2014 presidential campaign. She published her first novel, Blue Marks, in 2018 and served as a Labour MK from 2021 to 2022.
Positions and record
Education: Establish one state education stream with equal public funding per child; deny funding to schools that omit core subjects or obstruct inspection.
Religion and state: Repeal the expansion of rabbinical-court powers and reform kosher certification to accommodate a wider range of religious needs.
Culture: Restore funding cut from cinema, theatre and the school culture programme.
Transport: Run trains and urban and intercity public transport on Shabbat, with every worker entitled to choose a weekly rest day.
Security: Pursue a negotiated peace settlement; oppose annexation and renewed Israeli settlement in Gaza.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.