The Public Council authorized to choose the composition of the new Jewish Home party will convene for the first time on Sunday afternoon. The meeting will take place in N’vei Ilan, outside Jerusalem.

The parties that made up the National Religious Party and the National Union formally dissolved themselves in recent days, and their Knesset Members authorized the Council's 38 rabbis, professors and other public figures to choose the new party’s Knesset list.

Two main items will be on the session's agenda: Whether to accept the MKs’ recommendation to hold open primaries to choose the party leader, and the manner in which the Knesset list will be formed.

Four men have announced their candidacy for party leader: MK Uri Ariel, MK Zevulun Orlev, dark-horse Tzachi Fenton, and MK Benny Elon. 

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