Tekuma Chairman Uri Ariel
Tekuma Chairman Uri ArielFlash 90

The Central Committee of the Tekuma party will gather on Saturday night and decide whether or not Tekuma will run jointly with the Jewish Home in the next elections.

The decision to let the members Central Committee determine what Tekuma will do was made during a meeting between the party’s MKs and the Tekuma rabbis.

That meeting came after the Tekuma council discussed whether or not to run jointly with Jewish Home, but could not reach a decision as a vote on the issue resulted in a tie.

The Tekuma Central Committee is made up of 110 people. Party officials made clear on Thursday evening that "what the Central Committee decides will be binding on everybody."

Tekuma and Jewish Home have been largely at odds lately, with Tekuma sources this week explaining that there is a religious divide.

According to them, Jewish Home's controversial decision to actively court the secular and Druze public threatens to remove the Torah core principles from the party. They pointed to the slew of anti-religious legislation in the last Knesset and warned if the Jewish nature of the party is watered down it likely will no longer be interested in properly defending the Jewish nature of the state.

If Tekuma breaks off from Jewish Home, it is expected to join with former Shas chairperson Eli Yishai's new Yachad party (the name of the party has yet to be finalized). Ariel and Yishai have been discussing the possibility of a joint run extensively.