Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin announced Sunday that negotiations with Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich are in their final stretch, with both sides working to complete a merger ahead of the elections. Feiglin said the talks are already “in the home stretch” and he hopes to close a deal soon. In a video posted on X, Feiglin said: “As you know, we’re in advanced negotiations and in the final stretch, and we’re doing everything to make this happen.”
Feiglin stressed that his goal is to reach an agreement, but made clear that even if the talks don’t ultimately produce a deal, Zehut won’t give up its campaign. “Whether this happens or it doesn’t happen—with God’s help it will happen—but we’re going full force until the end, until the elections. We’ll be behind the curtain so there will be several serious Knesset members from Zehut there,” he said.
1+According to Feiglin, even as talks with Smotrich continue, the party will keep up its political activity across the country. Feiglin presented Zehut’s continued campaign as a move that doesn’t depend solely on the success of negotiations, making clear that the party has an independent message it wants to bring to the Knesset.
“We’ll keep running around the whole country, because you can’t give up on Zehut’s message,” Feiglin said, adding that “the people of Israel and the State of Israel have nowhere to move forward right now without this message, so we’ll be there.”
1+The comments come against the backdrop of ongoing efforts on the right to reduce fragmentation and forge alliances between parties ahead of the elections, with the main concern in the camp being the loss of votes from lists that run separately and struggle to cross the electoral threshold.