United Right leaders Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich are calling to unify the Right.
"I call on all potential partners to the right-wing and religious Zionist camp – both at home and from outside – to lower the flames," Peretz, who heads Habayit Hayehudi, said Wednesday. "We are before a fateful election campaign for the State of Israel in general and the right-wing camp in particular, and therefore the unity of the camp" is our top priority at this time.
National Union party leader Smotrich joined Peretz's call.
"There are times when we need to stop! We all share the goal of establishing a right-wing government. The only way to get there is for there to be one big right-wing party to the Right of the Likud."
Nevertheless, one figure who has ruled out joining forces with Smotrich is Zehut leader Moshe Feiglin, who believes it may be possible for his party to run together with the New Right.
While noting Israel's national religious sector has "many merits," and that it would be hard to imagine Israel without them, Feiglin said it was "clear that both the Zionist haredi configuration of the national religious and the 'lighter' version have failed to understand the challenge and therefore are off target as to the solution."
Feiglin said an alliance between his party and the Zionist ultra-Orthodox would nullify Zehut's message and rightfully drive away its voters. "It is only natural that the Zionist haredim would want a state that enforces its dream," he said.
Meanwhile, despite calls to formulate one large right-wing bloc, Habayit Hayehudi MK Moti Yogev has come out against proposals to allow New Right party leader Naftali Bennett back in the party.
"Bennett betrayed us. I don't think it's appropriate for us to take in those who didn't take us into account."
Bennett responded in a scathing post to social media, saying, "After half a year in which I remained silent, the time has come for me to respond. I do not want to go back to you, and I do not regret the move to establish the New Right. Every one of your and the other's remarks ('Bennett is a Reform Jew,' 'Bennett is a traitor') reminds me why I set out on my path."
