Who they are
Talia Lankri spent her career in the army and was the first woman to command a battalion at Bahad 1, the officers school. She retired as a colonel and later ran the home front division of the National Security Council.
She was born Talia Malka in Haifa in 1970, to parents who had come to Israel from Morocco, and grew up in Nahariya and Kiryat Motzkin. She enlisted at nineteen as an armour instructor and commanded a company on the women’s officers’ course before the battalion at Bahad 1. She went on to head the armoured corps gunnery and competencies branches, the operational employment branch and the defence and home front department, and to command the IDF comptroller’s unit. She holds degrees in sociology and education, in business administration and in security studies from the National Defense College.
Since leaving the army she has headed Mishmar HaBayit, a home guard project set up by HaShomer HaChadash with the Or and Lev Ehad associations. She stood for the leadership of Gedera council at the head of the Ometz list, lost to Sahar Pinto and took one of the three seats Ometz won. She belongs to the Dvora Forum, and joined Yisrael Beiteinu in 2026.
Positions and record
Draft: All communities should report for enlistment. The army should assign military or national service by need, without quotas.
Women in the IDF: Supports separate units to accommodate Haredi recruits, but rejects refusing orders because a combat medic is a woman.
Coalition: Rules out joining a coalition with Raam, regardless of who joins its list.
West Bank: Opposes settler violence and says her party will retain settlements established by the current government.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.