Rabbi Chaim Amsalem of the Am Shalem party, previously a member of Shas, has landed the second position in the lineup of the Zehut party headed by former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin.

The list was submitted by the director of the Zehut party, Shai Malka, who was appointed by the chairman to the sixth place. Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, who joined the party for the first time, was locked into the second place, Ron Tzafrir in 9th place and standup performer Idan Mor (Gadi Vilcharsky) who was pushed into 18th place.

The 10th place is reserved for a representative from abroad, according to the party’s constitution, and the rest of the list is composed based on the results of the primaries held by the party about a month ago.

The Zehut lineup
1. Moshe Feiglin – Chairman
2. Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, head of the Am Shalem party
3. Gilad Alper, an economist. Former member of the Advisory Council to the Minister of Finance
4. Dr. Ronit Dror – social worker and social activist
5. Adv. Libi Molad, founder of the New Liberal Movement and coordinator of education in the party
6. Shai Malka, one of the founders of the Zehut party and the party’s director-general, has been accompanying Moshe Feiglin for 16 years
7. Dr. Rafael Minas, researcher and lecturer at Ariel University
8. Albert Levy, businessman. A veteran immigrant from France and an environmental activist
9. Ron Tzafrir, social activist for medical cannabis
10. Rabbi Bentzion Spitz, representative of Diaspora Jewry (chosen by Diaspora Jews).
11. Attorney Yiska Bina
12. Shmuel Sackett
13. Shlomo Gordon
14. Arcady Mutter
15. Rabbi David Spitz
16. Asya Anatov
17. Dr. Nitza Kahana
18. Idan Mor (Gadi Wilcharsky)
19. Tzvi Bentzion Sender
20. David Sidman

When submitting the list, Moshe Feiglin: “There is no doubt that the Knesset’s Zehut list is the most diverse, most respected and a fascinating one, both for the men and the women who make up it, and for the democratic and open way in which they were elected.

On the list are men and women, chareidim and atheists, right-wingers and people who grew up on the left, all united behind the most detailed and respectable platform ever written by a party in Israel. Zehut will be the surprise of the elections in the next Knesset.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)