Strock and Smotrich's trick, which added 1.2 million shekels to the party

Settlement Minister Orit Strock registered under a separate party, "One Future - A Good Future for Israel," instead of "National Union - Tkuma," within the Religious Zionism list. The move exploits a loophole in the party funding law and is expected to bring the party an additional approximately 1.2 million shekels per year in ongoing state funding. The law allows separate registration of parties within a joint list, so each receives a fixed funding unit.

Settlement and National Missions Minister Orit Strock, who won the primaries in the Religious Zionism party center, registered yesterday (Tuesday) with the Central Elections Committee under a separate party named "One Future - A Good Future for Israel," instead of "National Union - Tkuma" under which most of the party registered. The move, described in the article as a "trick," exploits a loophole in the party funding law: the law sets a budget composed of funding units - part based on the number of MKs and a fixed part given solely for the existence of a registered party. When several parties run on a joint list, each is entitled to this fixed unit. The fixed addition amounts to about 98,000 shekels per month, about 1.2 million shekels per year. Strock remains part of the list and the political bloc, and the affiliation does not change the ballot or the identity of the candidates. The article notes that this is a known practice, and that the Otzma Yehudit party also used a similar trick two days earlier, when Minister Vasserlauf and MK Kroizer registered as "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu." The move is completely legal but is perceived as "unethical."