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Naftali Bennett

نفتالي بينيت נפתלי בנט
Party leader In opposition Independent Verified

Israeli politician and businessman; Prime Minister June 2021 – June 2022 leading the eight-party "change government" that briefly displaced Netanyahu. Former leader of Yamina; currently outside the Knesset but reportedly preparing a return to politics.

Country
Israel
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Party leader

Position

3 source documents on file for Naftali Bennett (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Naftali Bennett that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • Twice in history we have lost our national home precisely because the leaders of the generation were unable to sit with one another and find a compromise.
    פעמיים בהיסטוריה איבדנו את הבית הלאומי שלנו דווקא משום שמנהיגי הדור לא הצליחו לשבת זה עם זה ולמצוא פשרה.
    2021 June 13 2021 Knesset address swearing in the eight-party "change government" — the rhetorical pivot framing coalition-building with the left and centre as an act of Jewish historical responsibility. en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Naftali Bennett [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/naftali-bennett
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Naftali Bennett." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/naftali-bennett.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-naftali-bennett,
  title     = {{Naftali Bennett}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/naftali-bennett},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.