Ayelet Shaked, the former Israeli justice minister, has assumed the leadership of the New Right Party after striking a deal with her political partner Naftali Bennett.
Ms Shaked will top the right-wing nationalist party’s list of candidates in the September 17 election.
New Right fell narrowly short of the number of votes it needed to enter the Knesset at the last election in April, when Mr Bennett was top of the ticket.
“As you all know, I took full responsibility for the April election’s outcome, which I’m also doing now. Because for unity, one must make some personal concessions,” he said, according to Haaretz.
