Avi Maoz bids farewell to the Knesset: "We will soon return with renewed forces"

Chairman of the Noam party, Avi Maoz, bids farewell to the Knesset after his party failed to pass the electoral threshold, receiving only 6,219 votes. In a farewell letter, he promised to continue the struggle for the Jewish identity of the state: "We will soon return with renewed forces."

With the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset, Chairman of the Noam party, MK Avi Maoz, bids farewell to the parliament after his party failed to pass the electoral threshold, receiving only 6,219 votes. In a farewell letter he published, Maoz wished success to the incoming Knesset and promised that his struggle for the Jewish character of the state would continue outside the walls of parliament. He wrote: "Today I am concluding five and a half years as a member of Knesset, during which I acted resolutely for the Jewish identity of the State of Israel." Maoz clarified that his absence from the Knesset would not stop the activity of his movement, and thanked his supporters. In an earlier letter to activists after the results were published, Maoz admitted he was surprised by the gap between the forecasts and the results: "We failed to translate the public's sympathy for the messages of Noam into actual votes." He also addressed the possibility that the party leadership had erred: "It is possible that we made a mistake and gave excessive weight to certain data over others."