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Origins. Otzma Yehudit ("Jewish Power") was founded in 2012 by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzel as the heir of Meir Kahane's Kach movement (banned from the Knesset in 1988 under Israel's anti-racism law). It is explicitly Kahanist, drawing from Kahane's framework of Jewish supremacy and Arab "transfer." Hadash was founded in 1977 as a Jewish-Arab anti-Zionist coalition led by the Israeli Communist Party (Maki); it has been the political home of Israel's organised Arab-Jewish left for nearly half a century.

Where they diverge. This is the broadest doctrinal gap available in the Israeli system, possibly the broadest of any two Knesset parties. On the state: Otzma Yehudit explicitly seeks a Jewish-supremacist state with reduced or removed Arab citizenship rights; Hadash explicitly rejects Zionism and demands "a state of all its citizens." On territory: Otzma seeks Israeli sovereignty between the river and the sea plus transfer of Palestinian populations; Hadash supports a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and the right of return. On religion-and-state: Otzma is religious-Zionist with strong settler-rabbinical influence; Hadash is secular. On political economy: Otzma is right-wing populist; Hadash is socialist. On the Israeli criminal-justice system: Ben-Gvir as Minister of National Security has reshaped police doctrine in ways Hadash's MKs have called "fascist."

Where they overlap. Practically nothing in positive doctrine. Both are Knesset parties operating within Israeli electoral institutions; both have used the floor to challenge the legitimacy of the other's positions.

Why it matters today. Otzma Yehudit is in the current Israeli coalition. Hadash is in the opposition. The system that contains both is the system most stress-tested by the post-October 7 war.