Joint list · 26th Knesset
Two parties, one purpose
On 3 September 2026, at the Israel First launch event in Tel Aviv, Aleh Yarok and Israel First — the party led by Sharren Haskel — announced they would run together for the 26th Knesset. Rabbi Tzvi Yoel (Harry) Rozenberg stands at seat 7 on the joint list. Aleh Yarok chairman Nir Yufturo stands at seat 3.
The Israel First launch event in Tel Aviv, where the joint run with Aleh Yarok was announced.
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The joint list
The twelve candidates as published by the Israel First campaign. Harry Rozenberg stands at seat 7; Aleh Yarok chairman Nir Yufturo at seat 3.
- 1Sharren Haskel
- 2Roi Danino
- 3Nir Yufturo
- 4Wael Mughrabi
- 5Amit Feder
- 6Tomer Brook
- 7Rabbi Tzvi Yoel (Harry) Rozenberg
- 8Pini Benno
- 9Kfir Levi
- 10Alon Mengistu
- 11Daniel Farkash
- 12Adir Pahlavani
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Why the name means more in Hebrew
In English it reads as Israel First. The Hebrew is ישראל תחילה — Israel Techila — and techila means the beginning, the thing that comes first. It is the phrase from סוף מעשה במחשבה תחילה: the last in deed is the first in thought. What you build last is what you conceived first. Israel was first in thought. That is the reading we joined.
Seat 7
Seat 7 on a joint list is not a symbolic position. It is where a list that crosses the threshold with any room at all puts someone it intends to actually seat in the Knesset. The whole argument of this campaign has been that the threshold is the only obstacle between this platform and law — and a merger is the most direct answer there is to a threshold. Aleh Yarok has been on the ballot since 1999 and has never crossed it alone.
Sharren Haskel
Sharren Haskel entered the Knesset with the Likud, moved to New Hope with Gideon Sa'ar, returned with him to government, and then split from him to build something of her own. On 14 July 2026 she resigned as Deputy Foreign Minister — and from the Knesset — over the haredi draft exemption law. She founded Israel First the next day. In the Knesset she led the legislation for decriminalisation and legalisation; her bill was voted down in 2023 by 58 to 38. She has a documented habit of leaving a position rather than staying quiet in it. She is a rebel, and what drives the rebellion is love rather than grievance. That is rarer in Israeli politics than it ought to be.
Sharren Haskel's parliamentary and ministerial record is public. The characterisation of her as a rebel driven by love is ours, not hers, and she has not endorsed it.
On being kept off the stage
We are, in practice, kept out. Not formally — nobody sends a letter. We are simply not booked on the panels, not called for comment, and not invited to the debates where the parties that will form the next government argue in front of the country. We think that is because our argument is easier to exclude than to answer: that the way out of this is healing, and that the organising principle is love. You are reading this page because the stage was not offered.
The threshold is still a counting problem.
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