Short answer: Yes. As of August 2026, Moshe Feiglin, founder of Israel's Zehut party and a former Likud Knesset deputy speaker, is alive and remains one of Israel's most outspoken pro-Israel, pro-annexation political voices heading into the 2026 election. He lost his own grandson in Gaza combat in 2024 and has spent the past two years campaigning on hard-line security and Jewish-identity positions.
What Moshe Feiglin has actually said and done
2013 to 2015: Feiglin served as a Likud member of the Knesset and held the position of Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, before losing his slot in the December 2014 Likud primaries, according to Wikipedia's summary of his political record, cross-checked against contemporaneous Israeli press coverage.
January 2024: Feiglin left Likud a second time and reestablished Zehut over disagreements on Gaza war strategy, per Wikipedia's summary of his political record. He later told The Jerusalem Post he could no longer speak freely inside the party.
June 10, 2024: Feiglin's 19-year-old grandson, IDF soldier Yair Levin of the Givati Brigade reconnaissance unit, was killed along with three other soldiers in a booby-trapped building during fighting in Rafah, Gaza. Feiglin eulogized him publicly and criticized Israel's political leadership for failing to convert the soldiers' sacrifice into what he called "national victory," according to Israel National News and a separate Israel National News report.
January 16, 2025: Feiglin announced Zehut would run in the next Israeli election and called on right-wing coalition partners to bring down the Netanyahu government, saying Netanyahu "must go" over the gap between soldiers' heroism and political leadership, per The Times of Israel.
April 16, 2026: Ahead of the 2026 election, Israel National News confirmed Feiglin intends to again lead Zehut as an independent far-right list. The report noted that the aftermath of the Gaza war had boosted his support, though the party was still polling near the Knesset entry threshold.
May 6, 2026: Feiglin and former Otzma Yehudit chairman Michael Ben-Ari agreed to run on a joint right-wing list. Feiglin said the alliance was necessary because, in his words, "after the October 7 catastrophe, the alliance between those who opposed the Oslo Accords, warned of the approaching disaster, and paid heavy personal prices is essential to prevent the next disaster." He called for uniting those who combine "a strong Jewish identity with genuine personal freedom" to build "a Jewish, secure, and prosperous state," according to Israel National News and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post.
Where Feiglin fits in Israeli politics
Moshe Feiglin (born July 31, 1962, in Haifa) has been a fixture of Israel's nationalist right for three decades, first through the 1990s Zo Artzeinu protest movement against the Oslo Accords, then inside Likud, and since 2015 (with a brief 2021 to 2024 return to Likud) as founder and chairman of the libertarian-nationalist Zehut party. Zehut's platform combines hard-line security positions, including annexing the West Bank and Gaza and resettling Gaza with Jewish communities, with libertarian economic and personal-liberty views such as cannabis legalization and opposition to religious coercion.
He has never held a cabinet post. A 2019 arrangement in which Zehut dropped out of that year's race in exchange for a promised ministry for Feiglin did not materialize into an actual cabinet appointment, and no comparable finalized deal has surfaced for the 2026 cycle, only continued independent, and as of May 2026, allied campaigning alongside Ben-Ari.
Feiglin's connection to the war is personal as well as political. His grandson Yair Levin was killed fighting in Gaza in June 2024, and Feiglin has spoken publicly, including on Israeli television, about keeping his memory and the memory of the broader October 7 war present in Israeli public life. His statements consistently frame Jewish identity, Israeli sovereignty, and a hard line on security as inseparable, and nothing in the record shows him supporting boycotts of Israel, international intervention in Israeli affairs, or any position at odds with Israeli sovereignty.
The bottom line
Moshe Feiglin's full public record through August 2026, spanning his Knesset service, his party's platform, his personal loss in Gaza, and his 2025 to 2026 campaign statements, shows a consistent, decades-long pro-Israel, pro-sovereignty, pro-Jewish-identity position, with no countervailing evidence found.
Carrying that same pride forward
Feiglin's story, like so many touched by the war, is a reminder of how personal the fight for Israel's future has become for so many families. For those who want to carry that same steadfast identity into daily life, our I Stand With Israel collection offers a simple, visible way to show where you stand.
Related
Does Avigdor Lieberman Support Israel?
Does Benny Gantz Support Israel?
Does Naftali Bennett Support Israel?
Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
