The Bayit Yehudi party has launched a new site to permit persons to join the party online.

In a call to potential members, Bennett announced that the dati leumi community has only to look where the religious Zionist party was four years ago and where it is today. He explained in 2009 the party “was close to its death and it earned three seats in Knesset. We were small and weak…”

He mentions how the families of Gush Katif were expelled from their homes while no one paid attention. Bennett explains that today the new party is growing and represents the nation’s dati leumi community it has grown to a point of being influential.

According to the party, it currently has 54,000 registered members and 33,212 people voted in the primaries in 2013. In the 2013 Knesset elections, 230,657 people voted Bayit Yehudi and 345,985 people voted for the joint Bayit Yehudi-Tekuma list.

Bennett is calling on the public to register for the party using the new online site to permit Bayit Yehudi to continue to grow and influence the decisions of the cabinet.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)