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|name               = Right Bloc<br><small>(lit. "Right/Rightwards")</small>
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The '''Right Bloc''', sometimes referred to as '''Yamina''', is a {{wp|political alliance}} of the leading [[Yisrael]]i {{wp|right-wing}} parties - the {{wp|right-wing}} [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservative Party]], the {{wp|socially conservative}} [[Torah Achdus]] party, and the {{wp|far right}} [[League for New Judea]]. The Right Bloc, along with the [[Left Bloc]], have existed in one form or another since late 1975 [[Yisraeli general election, 1976|in advance of the 1976 general election]] [[Yarden revisionist movements|in the aftermath]] of the [[Yarden Accords]]. 

With the most recent [[Yisraeli general election, 2020|2020 general elections]], Yamina was down one party - the center-right [[Action Yisrael]] - that was apart of its political bloc in the [[Yisraeli general election, 2012|2012 elections]] and has switched to [[Electoral_College_in_Yisrael#Third-party_impact|cross-endorse]] the center/center-left [[Constitutional Liberal Party|Con-Lib]]-splinter party the [[Alternative for Yisrael]]. However, it gained the [[Torah Achdus]] party rejoining its ranks after [[Knesset#Parliamentary_composition_since_2004|an absence during the 48th session of the Knesset]] as well as retaining the [[League for New Judea|Northern League]]. The Right Bloc [[Yisraeli general election, 2020#Results|expanded its majority]] in [[Knesset]] and retained control of [[Presidency of Yisrael|the presidency]]. 

==History==
===1970s===
{{main|Yarden Accords|Yarden revisionist movements|New Right (Yisrael)}}
====1976 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1976}}
=====Founding=====
=====Campaign=====
===1980s===
====1980 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1980}}
=====Campaign=====
====1984 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1984}}
=====Campaign=====
====1988 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1988}}
=====Campaign=====
===1990s===
====1992 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1992}}
=====Campaign=====
====1996 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 1996}}
=====Campaign=====
===2000s===
====2000 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2000}}
=====Campaign=====
====2004 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2004}}
=====Campaign=====
====2008 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2008}}
=====Campaign=====
===2010s===
====2012 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2012}}
=====Campaign=====
====2016 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2016}}
=====Campaign=====
===2020s===
====2020 general election====
{{main|Yisraeli general election, 2020}}

The Right Bloc had one of its best showings in history, retaining the presidency for a third-term - the only time since the 1980s - as well as expanding to its largest majority in [[Knesset]] since the [[Binyamin Schwartz]] era. 

=====Campaign=====

On September 4th, 2019, [[Yitzchok Katz]] was formally nominated as the Conservative Party presidential nominee, also inheriting the leadership of the Right Bloc alliance. For the [[Left Bloc]], the Constitutional Liberals' [[Yosef Kaduri]] likewise was nominated by his party to be its 2020 nominee and lead the parallel Left Bloc apparatus. 

Between September and November, the campaign was underway, with Katz steadily leading Kaduri, but [[Yisraeli_general_election,_2020#Two-way_race|usually only by single digits]]. However, on November 7th, [[Reuven Goldschmidt]] [https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36434075#p36434075 announced a split-off center-left party] called the [[Alternative for Yisrael]], and he took nine other former Con-Lib MKs with him {{wp|Party switching|as he defected}}. With robust polling among centrist suburbanites and urban voters, Goldschmidt was joined by the center-right [[Action Yisrael]], which - increasingly uncomfortable with the [[Neoconservatism (Yisrael)|neoconservative turn at the end of the Feldman era and under Katz's electoral banner]] - broke off from the Right Bloc and joined the fledgling AfY in an [[United Center Bloc]]. 

By mid-December 2019, Goldschmidt [[Yisraeli_general_election,_2020#Three-way_race|surpassed Kaduri in the polling]] as Katz's direct competitor, and the metropolitan suburbs in the [[District system (Yisrael)#Districts|Western, Eastern, Yerushalayim, and Central Districts]] became furious political battlegrounds. 

Around Chanukkah Break through mid-January, Katz and Goldschmidt were [[Yisraeli_general_election,_2020#Three-way_race|neck-and-neck]] with Kaduri falling distantly behind. However, the [[Hezekian Reaction|death of King Yaakov II paused electioneering mere days out and upon his crowning, King Hezekiah III gave an on-air implicit endorsement of the Conservatives]]. On Election Night, Katz received over 44% of the vote in a three-way split and earned a decisive 109 Electoral Vote majority in [[Electoral College in Yisrael|the Electoral College]]. 

==Organization==
===Rules and practices===

Since its founding, the Yamina has been led by the [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservative Party]], which is written into its bylaws as the "leading party of the right." During presidential years where there is an open seat, the Conservative presidential nominee becomes leader of the bloc upon his nomination. In years where there is an incumbent president, the incumbent serves as bloc leader. In midterm years when the [[Presidency of Yisrael|President]] is not on the ballot, the leader of the Conservatives' [[Knesset]] caucus becomes the bloc leader. 

The party leaders or chosen alternatives/representatives of other right-of-center parties that join the bloc become the co-deputy leaders.

While all the parties are responsible for their own fundraising, since the 1990s, the Conservatives have created joint fundraising committees to help raise and distribute funds to their coalition partners. 

===Continuity===

Since the mid-1980s, the Conservatives and their contemporary allies maintain a coordinated {{wp|standing committee}} in-between elections, in addition to any other liaising or mutual contacts they maintain between their Knesset caucuses and party organizations. This committee, usually called the "Right Bloc Election Committee," is often a coveted group to join, and ambitious members of third-party parties often seek to join it to broaden their appeal throughout the right-wing political world. 

Right Bloc Election Committee fund-raises perpetually, including off-years when it organizes funds, staffers, advertising, election training, and other assistance to Right Bloc member-parties in [[District system (Yisrael)|District, local]], and {{wp|special election|special}} elections. 

==Election pact==
===Campaign agreement===
===Governing agreement===
==Election results and current representation==
===Current representation===

The political alliance is led by [[Presidency of Yisrael|President]] and [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservative Party]] leader [[Yitzchok Katz]], who serves as the bloc's chairman, and the co-deputy chairmen are the [[Torah Achdus]] leader [[Moshe Lippman]] and [[League for New Judea|Northern League]] leader (and [[Yisrael#Cabinet|Interior Minister]]) [[David Touro]]. The Bloc has an executive board consisting of all the members of each party's executive councils.

===Election results===
====Presidential====
====Knesset====
=====Since 2004=====

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
! colspan="9"|[[Knesset|Royal Knesset]]
|-
! width="60px"| Election
! width="100px"| Leader
! width="100px"| Seats won
! width="60px"| +/−
! width="30px"| Rank
! width="125px"| Majority
! width="125px"| Parties In Bloc
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2020|2020]]
| [[Binyamin Goldschmidt]]
| {{Composition bar|85|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 9
| #1
| style="background:#008000;"| Majority
| 
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]<sup>1</sup>
* [[League for New Judea|Northern League]]<sup>1</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2018|2018]]
| [[Binyamin Goldschmidt]]
| {{Composition bar|76|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 1
| #1
| style="background:#008000;"| Majority
| 
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Action Yisrael]] 
* [[League for New Judea|Northern League]]<sup>2</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2016|2016]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|75|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 16
| #1
| style="background:#008000;"| Majority
| 
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[League for New Judea|Northern League]]<sup>3</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2014|2014]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|58|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{decrease}} 22
| #2
| style="background:#FFA07A;"| Minority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]<sup>4</sup>
* [[League for New Judea|Northern League]]<sup>4</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2012|2012]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|80|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 6
| #1
| style="background:#008000;"| Majority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]<sup>5</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2010|2010]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|74|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 9
| #1
| style="background:#008000;"| Majority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2008|2008]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|65|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{decrease}} 6
| #2
| style="background:#FFA07A;"| Minority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]<sup>6</sup>
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2006|2006]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|71|142|hex=#002366}}
| {{increase}} 11
| [[Knesset#Parliamentary_composition_since_2004|Tie]]
| style="background:#FFA07A;"| Minority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]
|-
! [[Yisraeli general election, 2004|2004]]
| 
| {{Composition bar|60|142|hex=#002366}}
| TBD
| #2
| style="background:#FFA07A;"| Minority
|
* [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Conservatives]] 
* [[Torah Achdus]]<sup>6</sup>
* [[National Union Party (Yisrael)|National Union]]<sup>7</sup>
|-
|}

'''Notes'''
<br><small>1. [[Action Yisrael]] [[United Center Bloc|left the Right Bloc for the newly formed United Center Bloc]] in the advance of the 2020 elections. Torah Achdus rejoined the Bloc and [[David Touro|finally made a level of peace]] with the League.</small> 
<br><small>2. [[Torah Achdus]] left the Bloc for the midterm elections due to then-public spats with personalities in the Action Yisrael and Northern League parties. After the election, the TA entered into a {{wp|supply and confidence}} agreement with the bloc.</small>
<br><small>3. While the [[Action Yisrael]] and [[Torah Achdus]] parties [[Electoral_College_in_Yisrael#Two-party_presidential_system|cross-endorsed]] the Conservatives on the presidential level, they chose to run their own candidates and not enter an election pact for Knesset and other offices.</small>
<br><small>4. Torah Achdus and the Northern League put aside their simmering feud and policy differences and agreed to stay under one tent with the Conservatives, while Action Yisrael declined to join their list and [[Party_divisions_of_the_Yisraeli_Knesset#Third_Party_System_.281974-2019.29|consequently joined the short-lived one-term Con-Lib majority in the 46th Knesset]].</small>
<br><small>5. The Northern League and Action Yisrael, although they [[Electoral_College_in_Yisrael#Two-party_presidential_system|cross-endorsed]] the Conservatives on the presidential level, declined to join the Right Bloc list at the Knesset and lower level.</small>
<br><small>6. The Torah Achdus party, although they [[Electoral_College_in_Yisrael#Two-party_presidential_system|did not cross-endorse]] the Conservatives on the presidential level, did to join the Right Bloc list at the Knesset level.</small>
<br><small>7. The [[National Union Party (Yisrael)|National Union]] party {{wp|Merger (politics)|merged}} with the Conservatives before the 2006 elections.</small>

=====1976-2004=====

==See also==

* [[Politics of Yisrael]]
* [[United Center Bloc]]
* [[Left Bloc]]
* [[Electoral College in Yisrael]]
* [[Yisraeli general election, 2020]]
* [[Party divisions of the Yisraeli Knesset]]


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