{"id":536685,"date":"2026-07-11T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536685\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:29:08","slug":"mk-dan-illouz-expected-to-leave-netanyahus-likud-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536685\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Dan Illouz expected to leave Netanyahu’s Likud Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

MK Dan Illouz<\/a> is expected to announce that he is leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s ruling Likud Party, N12 News reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The report follows MK Yuli Edelstein’s July 3 announcement that he will leave Likud, after which he is expected to begin a new political party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a very difficult sentence to say,\u201d said Edelstein at the time<\/a>. \u201cThere are also those friends who at this moment are hearing what I am saying in surprise and saying, \u2018What is Yuli doing?! We supported him for decades, we would have supported him this time too, why is he doing this?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Edelstein and Illouz are critics of the contentious legislation being advanced by the haredi parties from within the coalition.<\/p>\n

This includes the controversial Basic Law: Torah Study<\/a> bill, which would enable haredi draft dodgers to receive state benefits, as well as an additional bill aimed at changing Israel’s daycare subsidy system.<\/p>\n

In June, Illouz told The Jerusalem Post that the haredi parties “can be a danger to the future of the state of Israel,” saying that the coalition should sever ties with them.<\/p>\n

He further noted the economic impact of haredi draft evasion as evidence of their presence in the coalition doing “more harm than good.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the ideology that I represent: the right-wing, free market, hawkish ideology, is the one that needs to lead the country,” said Illouz. “But I don\u2019t believe that the coalition with the ultra-Orthodox parties is actually something which is helping us advance this ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avi Solomon and Keshet Neev contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MK Dan Illouz is expected to announce that he is leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s ruling Likud Party,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,14406,21141,43,238],"class_list":["post-536685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-knesset","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}