{"id":542750,"date":"2026-07-15T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542750\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:51:08","slug":"aliyah-minister-sofer-announces-he-will-not-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542750\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliyah Minister Sofer announces he will not run for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Aliyah and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer (Religious Zionist Party) announced that he will not run for re-election in a statement released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In his statement, Sofer thanked his supporters and said he would continue to serve in his position until the end of his term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Religious Zionist Party head and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to Sofer\u2019s decision in a post on X\/Twitter, lamenting his upcoming departure from politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">However, he stated that he respects Sofer\u2019s decision and is confident that the aliyah minister will find another way to serve Israel outside of politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">This comes after Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren (New Hope-United Right) on Tuesday announced her resignation from the government, stating that she could no longer stand behind the government\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Keshet Neev contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aliyah and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer (Religious Zionist Party) announced that he will not run for re-election in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1982,42,46,954,14406,43,35649,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-542750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics","tag-knesset","tag-news","tag-religious-zionist-party","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750","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=542750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}