Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government

The ultra-Orthodox parties Shas (11 seats) and United Torah Judaism (7 seats) entered Israel's 37th government, sworn in on 29 December 2022 — the most right-wing/religious coalition in the country's history, alongside Likud and Religious Zionism/Otzma Yehudit. Their coalition agreements secured large yeshiva and Haredi-sector budgets, the "Deri Law," and commitments on conscription and religion-state matters. UTJ's Yitzhak Goldknopf became housing minister and Shas's Deri was slated for interior/health.

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Yitzhak Goldknopf minister
Aryeh Deri party-leader

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Gara, T. (2026). Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/c759a79a-9727-40e6-8b8c-25b5b81adf4a

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/c759a79a-9727-40e6-8b8c-25b5b81adf4a.

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@misc{tayyar-event-c759a79a-9727-40e6-8b8c-25b5b81adf4a,
  title     = {{Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/c759a79a-9727-40e6-8b8c-25b5b81adf4a},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2022-12-29. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2022-12-29. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.