{"id":543296,"date":"2026-07-15T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:10:16","slug":"mk-dan-illouz-announces-departure-from-likud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543296\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Dan Illouz announces departure from Likud"},"content":{"rendered":"

MK Dan Illouz<\/a> announced that he will not run for reelection with Likud in the upcoming election in a video statement released on X\/Twitter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI simply cannot ask you to vote for a party that I myself can no longer bring myself to vote for,\u201d Illouz stated. \u201cThis is no longer the Likud<\/a>. This is a party that has been hijacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cited Israeli leadership\u2019s evasion of responsibility for the October 7 massacre, legislation supporting haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders<\/a>, and the rising cost of living as reasons why he is leaving the party.<\/p>\n

He decried the Tuesday passing of a bill that aimed to freeze arrests of haredi draft dodgers as \u201ca disgrace\u201d that made clear to him that he no longer aligned with the Likud.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the IDF is warning of collapsing under the burden and my fellow reservists are sacrificing their families and their experience of fatherhood, the Likud has chosen a permanent surrender to the haredi parties,\u201d Illouz stated.<\/p>\n

He continued to accuse the party of \u201cdoing everything to avoid responsibility\u201d for the October 7 massacre<\/a> rather than facing the Israeli public and asking for forgiveness for security faults that led up to the Hamas attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJewish identity is, first of all, taking responsibility,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n

Regarding the state of Israel\u2019s economy, Illouz criticized Likud for failing to take measures to prevent the cost of living from rising.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no ability to do good for citizens in a party that is entirely made up of interest groups. When you go to the supermarket today, you pay a tax to the Likud, a tax to workers’ unions, and a tax to the agricultural lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his decision not to run for reelection with Likud, Illouz emphasized that he will continue to work to better Israel \u201cwith integrity and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MK Dan Illouz announced that he will not run for reelection with Likud in the upcoming election in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[147752,42,46,954,14406,21141,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-543296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2026-israeli-elections","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics","tag-knesset","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543296","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=543296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}