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Top rightist MKs won`t head new national-religious party Habayit Hayehudi
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Jewish Home, Israel News 

The Knesset's most prominent rightist lawmakers will not head the newly formed "Habayit Hayehudi" national-religious party, party officials announced on Thursday.

The public council that runs the party, whose name translates as "Jewish Home," said that instead of MKs Zevulun Orlev, Uri Ariel and Benny Elon, another three people were likely candidates for the role of party chairman.

These were Avi Wortzman, head of the "From the beginning" movement, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the director general of Israel's rabbinical courts, and Rabbi and Professor Daniel Hershkovitz of the Technion in Haifa.
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Habayit Hayehudi announced recently that it would not hold primary elections for its Knesset list and leadership, instead allocating that task to its 40-person public committee - headed by Major General (Res.) Ya'akov Amidror.

The latest party announcement comes one day after MK Rabbi Yitzhak Levy's resignation from political life. The hardline politician criticized the party's decision not to hold primary elections, saying the party should allow more public involvement.



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