The Likud Has Expired: A Factual Case for You to Vote for Orot HaSachar this election.
For years, the Likud has positioned itself as the iron wall of the Israeli right—the only party capable of holding the line against the left and securing the nation.
But when you strip away the drama and the rhetoric, a devastating pattern emerges.
The Likud, under Benjamin Netanyahu, has been the architect of the very disasters it now claims to be fighting.
The evidence is not a matter of opinion; it is a matter of record.
The Oslo Accords
The claim that the Likud was innocent of Oslo is a myth.
While Likud opposed the 1993 agreement in opposition, it was a Likud government under Netanyahu that formally embraced the process.
Upon taking power in 1996, Netanyahu accepted the Oslo framework and signed the Wye River Memorandum, further ceding territory.
He did not dismantle the Palestinian Authority created by Oslo; he managed it.
When Netanyahu later boasted of "blocking" a Palestinian state, he was admitting that he spent decades managing the Oslo architecture rather than uprooting it.
The Gush Katif Expulsion
The destruction of Gush Katif was not a left-wing plot; it was carried out by a Likud prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
The plan was approved by a Likud-led government. When the Likud membership was given a referendum on the plan, party members voted against it—yet Sharon proceeded anyway, splitting the party and expelling thousands of Jews from their homes.
Netanyahu, then Finance Minister, resigned in protest—but only after the plan was already irreversible.
The Likud machinery enabled the expulsion;
Netanyahu's resignation was a footnote, not a prevention.
The Hamas Funding Mechanism
The rise of Hamas from a militant faction to a governing authority was not an accident of history.
Under Netanyahu, Israel allowed suitcases containing millions of Qatari dollars to enter Gaza through Israeli crossings between 2018 and 2023.
Israeli intelligence warned Netanyahu repeatedly—starting in 2019—that these funds were being diverted to Hamas's military wing, accounting for as much as 50% of its operational budget.
Avigdor Liberman, who resigned as Defense Minister over the policy, stated plainly:
"Netanyahu knew, and knowingly continued transferring millions to terrorists."
The strategy was deliberate: keep Hamas strong enough to serve as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority, preventing a unified Palestinian state.
October 7th and the Betrayal of Accountability
The "right-wing government" was in full glory on October 7th, 2023. Netanyahu was Prime Minister; Likud was in power. The promise of "total defeat" of Hamas and Hezbollah has never materialized. Instead of accountability, the Likud has spent years blocking an independent state commission of inquiry into the failures that enabled the massacre. Netanyahu has consistently dodged personal responsibility, blaming the military and previous governments.
The Trump Plan
The 20-point plan that Netanyahu agreed to with President Trump explicitly includes, in point 19, the possibility of "self-determination and the creation of a Palestinian state." Netanyahu denies this publicly, but the text is clear. This is not a plan for victory; it is a plan for de facto Palestinian statehood, managed by an international body and a reformed Palestinian Authority.
The Case for Orot HaSachar
The Likud's record is not one of security and sovereignty. It is a record of Oslo's implementation, Gush Katif's destruction, Hamas's funding, and October 7th's catastrophe. This is not a party that holds the dam—it is a party that has become the dam's structural weakness.
The Alternative
Orot HaSachar, "Dawn Light," is a new political party registered with the Israeli Interior Ministry ahead of the 2026 elections. It was founded by Benayahu Har Shemesh, who knew that the desperation of the situation now was one proving that the change Israel needed could not be delayed or entrusted by the very same government who showed itself incapable of preventing the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust in world War 2 by the Nazis.
Yair Ansbacher is a national security expert, educator, and graduate of IDF Special Forces who was part of the IDF team that responded to the October 7 attacks at Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak.
The party was established, to create a national-religious alternative through transparent primaries among all candidates, operating under principles of faith, nationalism, and public transparency.
The party has attracted figures defined not by political careerism but by personal sacrifice and moral clarity:
Nissim Louk, father of Shani Louk, who was murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7th and whose body was abducted to Gaza.
Louk has stated the party supports:
the permanent transfer of the Arab population from Gaza and Judea and Samaria,
along with preparations for large-scale Jewish immigration from the Diaspora.
He has confronted Likud leaders directly, telling Transportation Minister Miri Regev: "You caused October 7th. Shame on you, Likud. My daughter Shani Louk was murdered because of you. 3,000 people were murdered because of you".
He since has made a apology for the rash delivery of his pain felt remarks, but made clear he did not regret the message and sentiment.
He has also accused the Likud of financing Hamas.
Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy intelligence analyst who spent 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, announced his candidacy with Orot HaSachar in May 2026.
Pollard, who was once welcomed to Israel as a hero by Netanyahu, has since become a sharp critic of the prime minister and the current government.
He stated that October 7th was the deciding factor for his entry into politics:
"Up until October 7, I believed his [personal] abandonment and betrayal [by] the government was the exception to the rule. But after October 7, I realized that I was not the exception; that the government and the military had betrayed and abandoned the entire country".
Pollard has said Netanyahu "pounds his chest and says, 'We've never been more successful ever in fighting our enemies.' I'm sorry that is a cold-blooded lie".
Jonathan Pollard by recommendation of the Israeli secret service demanded he leave the party for his own safety after repeated attempts on his life.
Full story:
The party is positioning itself to the right of Likud, arguing that Israel's current right-wing leadership has failed to act on its own stated ideology.
Ansbacher has expressed fierce opposition to the US-brokered ceasefire agreement, attacking Netanyahu for "betrayal" of IDF soldiers and bereaved families, and for ceding Gaza to Egyptian-Qatari control while releasing hundreds of murderers from prison.
This is a party whose members have not been financed by the same corporate and foreign interests that sustain the Likud's political machine. Its leaders have a record of action and sacrifice—not decades of political maneuvering that leaves the nation less secure.
The right-wing voter who wants sovereignty, security, and accountability must recognize that the Likud has expired.
The writing on the wall is not a threat—it is a reckoning.
Voting for Orot HaSachar is not a vote for a smaller party; it is a vote for a party that has not been compromised by the very policies that led to the current disaster.
Addendum: Voices from Orot HaSachar — Rabbi Yosef Edery on the Likud's Betrayal and the Dawn of a New Right
The following addendum is based on a campaign interview with Rabbi Yosef Edery, a candidate on the Orot HaSachar list, and Daniel, an American-Israeli commentator. The video, published in September 2026, provides a moral and spiritual case for the party that reinforces the factual record outlined above. Rabbi Edery is a Sephardic Jew from Morocco, a Chabad student, and a refugee from communist Poland. His testimony carries the weight of someone who has seen tyranny firsthand and understands the cost of Jewish powerlessness.
The Likud's Original Sins: Oslo, Gush Katif, Hamas
Rabbi Edery confirms the article's central claims from personal experience. On Gush Katif, he states: "You have to remember the Likud and Sharon and Bibi were involved in Gush Katif, throwing the last few thousand Jews out of Gaza in the first place. Which I was for, by the way, at the time... I changed my opinion long ago, long before October 7th" (Edery, 07:56). He explains the disengagement was a "proof of concept" to see if the Palestinians could govern themselves. "Instead of making it the Singapore of the Middle East, they used it as a launching pad for more terrorism. So here's what happened. We did the disengagement. They failed... The thesis has been proved" (Edery, 09:05). He also states plainly that the Likud funded Hamas through Qatar: "Giving money to through Qatar to Hamas" (Edery, 07:51).
Netanyahu as Chameleon and Performance Artist
Rabbi Edery delivers a devastating moral indictment of Netanyahu, arguing that he is more dangerous than a left-wing leader because he masquerades as right-wing. "I think this is more dangerous than a lefty that just tells you who he is and what he is. This is the most dangerous thing in the world is this sorcery, this facade of right-wing. Netanyahu is going to be the one to tell us what's right-wing and what's not right-wing" (Edery, 17:30). He describes Netanyahu as a "consummate performance artist" and a "Machiavellian chess player" who "always found a way to play the game and make a coalition" (Edery, 17:37). He adds: "Even when he says the truth, it hurts me to hear because I don't know if he's lying anymore. He lost my heart" (Edery, 18:36). He asks: "Do we need a liar? Is that what we need representing the Jewish people?" (Edery, 19:03).
The Failure of the "Right-Wing Government" and the Need for a New Right
Rabbi Edery recalls being in the Knesset before the war and seeing the right-wing majority: "We have a majority right-wing government. We have Shas, which is Sephardic. Shas Gimmel, which is Ashkenazic religious. We have Tzionut Datit... And then we had Likud, which I felt were God-fearing people... The issue is that we see after October 7 that unfortunately this didn't hold up. It didn't at all" (Edery, 24:46). He says the Likud has become "crony capitalist" with "mobsters" and "rapists" in its ranks, and that Israel now has "the worst of all possible worlds" — a Marxist bureaucracy left over from the state's founding and a phony crony capitalism that only works for the top (Edery, 22:12).
The Case for Orot HaSachar
Rabbi Edery praises the party's candidates as authentic and unbought. He calls Nissim Louk "a Sephardic Jew, a no-nonsense Mizrahi. He says it as it is... a person like Nissim Louk is not someone that can be bought and sold and he won't sell out his brother" (Edery, 14:49). He praises Yair Ansbacher: "Nissim and Yair Ansbacher, they talk truth. They are no-nonsense" (Edery, 16:29). He criticizes other right-wing leaders for praising Netanyahu "like he's God incarnate, like he's Messiah," calling it "idol worship" (Edery, 16:51). He says Orot HaSachar is "an optimistic homemade party with people who have never touched this dirt and are coming in fresh. We don't have Coca-Cola or Bank Leumi or some sketchy shady enterprise... We don't have any of the Mamza Club funneling money into our back pocket" (Edery, 27:28).
The Urgency of the Vote
Rabbi Edery appeals directly to disillusioned right-wing voters: "All who have lost faith must vote" (Edery, 00:00). He acknowledges the usual rules: "On a regular day, there are regular rules. You don't throw your votes away to a party that doesn't seem like it's going to get through the threshold. But in a life-and-death situation, you do what you need to do and you don't look right and left" (Edery, 27:04). He concludes: "We're asking all God-fearing people to vote for Orot HaSachar if it's the last thing you do because your vote matters and if you're disenfranchised, if you're disillusioned by this government, then you must vote Orot HaSachar. We are the dawn" (Edery, 28:04). Daniel adds that secular Israelis should also vote for the party, citing its commitment to the environment and its appeal to all who have lost faith in the system.
Conclusion
Rabbi Edery's testimony reinforces the article's thesis: the Likud has expired. Its record is one of Oslo's implementation, Gush Katif's destruction, Hamas's funding, and October 7th's catastrophe. Orot HaSachar, by contrast, is a party of moral clarity, personal sacrifice, and untainted by the cronyism that has consumed the Likud. As Rabbi Edery says, "After the darkness comes the light." The dawn is here.
Source: Rabbi Yosef Edery and Daniel, interview, Orot HaSachar campaign video, September 2026,
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