Israel's Major Political Parties:
- Likud: Israel's main conservative party; supports the Israeli settlement movement in the occupied West Bank
- Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home): Secular, nationalist party that wants to redraw borders so that parts of Israel with large Arab populations would be in a Palestinian state
- Yesh Atid: Centrist party founded by former journalist Yair Lapid in 2012
- Labor: Center-left party; supports renewing peace negotiations with the Palestinians and dismantling most Israeli settlements
- Shas (Union of Sephardic Torah Observers): Represents Israel's ultra-orthodox Jews of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Spanish origin and advocates a nation based on Jewish religious law
- Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home): Far-right party that advocates annexing more than half the West Bank and opposes the Oslo Peace Accords