Joint list · 26th Knesset
Two parties, one list
On 3 September 2026, at the Israel Techila launch event in Tel Aviv, Aleh Yarok and Israel Techila announced they would run together for the 26th Knesset. Aleh Yarok chairman Nir Yufturo stands at seat 3; Rabbi Tzvi Yoel (Harry) Rozenberg at seat 7.
Why a merger, plainly
The threshold is 3.25% and neither party clears it alone. Aleh Yarok has been on the ballot since 1999 and has never crossed it; Israel Techila was seven weeks old and polling below one per cent. A merger is the only honest answer to an arithmetic problem, and it is a better answer than asking either constituency to vote for somebody it does not agree with.
What each side brings
Israel Techila brings a former deputy minister, a security and economic bench, and a coalition strategy aimed at making a broad Zionist government possible. Aleh Yarok brings twenty-seven years of organised argument about drug policy, a patient constituency that has been ignored by every government in that period, and the case for psychedelic-assisted treatment of trauma at the moment Israel most needs it. On cannabis the two were never far apart: Haskel led the legalisation bill in the Knesset and lost it 58 to 38 in 2023.
Seat 7
Seat 7 on a joint list is not decorative. It is where a list that crosses the threshold with any room at all puts someone it intends to actually seat. That is the whole argument of this campaign compressed into one number: the threshold is the only thing standing between this platform and law.
What we are not claiming
The two parties have not become one party and do not agree about everything. A joint list is an electoral agreement for one election. Where Aleh Yarok's platform and Israel Techila's differ — and they do — neither side is pretending otherwise, and this site says which plank comes from which.
Aleh Yarok's own site
Aleh Yarok runs its own trilingual campaign site with its platform, its candidates and its pledge form.