The term “Religious Zionism,” which in 1902 turned into a political movement called “Hamizrachi,” adopting the slogan “The Land of Israel for the People of Israel under the Law of Israel.”

The HaMizrahi movement, in turn, merged in 1956 with the Hapoel HaMizrahi movement to form the National Religious Party, Mafdal.

His political career witnessed ups and downs due to internal divisions and the emergence of other religious Zionist parties.

The most important of these are: the Kach movement, founded by the extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Tami movement, the Matsad movement, the Meimad movement, and the Gush Emunim settlement movement.

The seeds of religious extremism and rebellion against the party’s historical leadership and its dominant general line began to appear in the early 1970s. These groups were growing with the expansion of the settlement project in the territories occupied since 1967, and this political current was the strongest and most dominant over the settlements and settlers.

The political body most closely associated with the Kach movement and considered an extension of it is the Otzma Yehudit party, led by Itamar Ben Gvir, but there are also those in the Religious Zionism party, led by Smotrich, who hold Kahanist thought, especially the idea of mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.