Realizing the National Religious Party may disappear if it runs alone in the upcoming general election, NRP leader Zevulun Orlev on Wednesday night entered into a merger agreement with the National Union.
While the two parties agreed, there are a number of issues to be ironed out, including who will run the party and the Knesset election lineup. Both sides hope the merger will attract a larger voter base in the upcoming election.
The two parties are in actuality the result of an earlier merger of four parties – NRP, Moledet, Tekumah, and Achi.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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so will it be a secular party that is friendly to religion, or a religious party which at some point asks a shailoh to whichever rabbinical leaders they respect (as NRP was in the past).