Religious Zionism

Five Religious Zionism members who were present for the roll-call vote voted against the bill to establish a state commission of inquiry. This direct vote supersedes the earlier reliance on general participation in the coalition initiative.

Religious Zionism presented an official plan to reform the judicial system and, on the day the reasonableness standard was curtailed, said that it would continue to lead the changes. The combination of a party plan and enacted legislation provides direct, current grounding.

In the roll-call vote on limiting a prime minister to two consecutive terms, all seven Religious Zionism members listed in the record opposed the proposal. The complete record strengthens the existing opposition coding to high confidence.

Smotrich refused to cancel coalition funds in full and later moved allocations associated with his party into the base budget. Both actions preserve the allocations in the face of the demand to cancel them.

All seven Religious Zionism members voted for the law. This was a complete and unanimous vote on the precise mechanism.

The official Victory Plan calls for Israeli control, annexation of an area, and the application of sovereignty, while limiting international involvement to a humanitarian compound under Israeli management. This is a different model from the one in the statement, but it does not explicitly reject every regional framework.

The official Victory Plan calls for full IDF operational control throughout Gaza and the annexation of a security perimeter. These are the two elements in the statement, expressed in even stronger terms.

On its official website, Religious Zionism presents eliminating the idea of a Palestinian state as both an achievement and an objective. This is the opposite of the diplomatic horizon in the statement.

Religious Zionism presents sovereignty and the transfer of civilian powers in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to civilian authorities as an official objective, and in 2025 it committed to vote for a sovereignty law.

Smotrich expressed a conservative position against women’s conscription, and leading rabbis in Religious Zionism’s Torah-oriented camp called for a halt to the expanded integration of women in combat. There is no complete, current party provision on the issue.

In July 2026, Smotrich said that the Settlement Administration was ready to establish settlement groups and communities in Gaza, and called on Netanyahu to give the green light. This is a current, explicit, and operational objective.

The Religious Zionism parliamentary group voted for the law at third reading, on precisely the issue addressed by the statement.

Bezalel Smotrich supported advancing the exemption arrangement, while Ofir Sofer and other party members demanded broader service and opposed the arrangement. There is no uniform party line that can be scored.

Michal Waldiger supported enlistment targets and sanctions, whereas Orit Strock said that value-based disputes are not resolved through sanctions and arrests; Smotrich also supported suspending arrests as part of a compromise. Waldiger and Strock remained on the 2026 slate, so the disagreement over personal and economic sanctions is genuine and current.

Religious Zionism and its representatives directly opposed civil marriage. The source is relatively old, and the current platform does not explicitly restate the position.

All six Religious Zionism members voted for the law, and Simcha Rothman led the committee proceedings on it in the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.

Religious Zionism opposed public transport on Shabbat as part of preserving Shabbat in the public sphere. The source is old.

There is general support for core curriculum studies and integration, but no party source was found that resolves whether funding should be conditional as proposed in the statement.

No explicit, current party source was found on a general Basic Law establishing equality and prohibiting discrimination. Positions on individual rights or the Nation-State Law do not answer this question.

Religious Zionism rejects forming a government with Ra'am or relying on Arab parties even when threshold conditions and governing principles are specified.

The old economic platform and the 2026 budget emphasize tax cuts, growth, and reduced regulation, but they do not rule out a targeted tax on high earners to expand social services. A general tax orientation does not answer the precise mechanism in the statement, so the position is excluded from the calculation.

In 2026, the Finance Ministry under Smotrich was reported to oppose expanding the basket of price-controlled products as a matter of principle, including in response to Barkat’s request concerning matzah. This is the ministry’s position, not a statement by the party itself.

Smotrich’s policy combines opening imports and reducing barriers with direct support for and strengthening of domestic agriculture. It neither accepts nor categorically rules out harm to farmers and therefore remains neutral.

Most of the Religious Zionism parliamentary group and Smotrich supported an employment-or-study test based on the mother alone, subject to priority for reservists. The only two opponents, Ofir Sofer and Moshe Solomon, left and are not on the 2026 slate. The current electoral profile therefore opposes the statement with high confidence, without erasing the historical disagreement.

The order was advanced by Finance Minister Smotrich, and all seven participating Religious Zionism members voted for it.

Bezalel Smotrich and Zvi Sukkot welcomed the end of administrative detention against Jews, arguing that such detention was draconian or intended for fighting the enemy.

Religious Zionism advanced a stricter version and supported the temporary provision, reflecting opposition to expanding status for Palestinian spouses.

Bezalel Smotrich is named among those who opposed the 2020 bill to ban conversion therapy. A current ban proposal was defeated in January 2026, but without a complete roll-call record; the opposition coding therefore remains at medium confidence on the basis of the precise but old vote, not coalition membership.

No precise Religious Zionism party line was found that resolves the choice between a multi-year civilian programme and the Shin Bet and emergency measures.

In 2026, the Finance Ministry under Smotrich continues the tender and implementation process and regards the charge as a source of funding for public transport and the metro. The position is attributed to the party through his ministerial role, not through a party document.