While broadly centrist, Kachol Lavan’s political ideology is hard to place, especially as concerns the Palestinian question. Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi (former IDF chief of staff and number four on Kachol Lavan’s list) have both spoken in favor of a two-state solution as a means to preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Benny Gantz has elaborated on plans for peace with the Palestinians that would include some form of territorial concessions, while annexing certain settlements and retaining the Jordan Valley as a security border for Israel. His statements are compatible with both one and two-state proposals, and he has not come down explicitly for either. Moshe Ya’alon (number three on the list and another former IDF chief of staff) is publicly opposed to the two-state solution, a stance he reaffirmed after joining forces with Benny Gantz in January. The list includes other prominent right-wingers, including former Likud Media Adviser Zvi Hauser. Gantz and Lapid have been careful to avoid left-wing associations, including by rejecting a joint list with Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah.

Kachol Lavan has the potential to outperform Netanyahu’s Likud, providing the sitting prime minister with a serious electoral challenge. In particular, the inclusion of Gabi Ashkenazi, a Mizrahi former IDF chief of staff, has the potential to draw votes away from Likud and other right-wing parties.

The party has not released a platform, but Gantz did lay out his program in a January speech. During his address, he spoke in favor of religious pluralism, including public transit on the sabbath for municipalities that elect to have it, better relations with minorities, a robust security stance, and peace.

Gantz’s exact vision of peace remains unclear. In his speech, he praised the Wye River Memorandum and Hebron agreement, as well as Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech (conditional endorsement of a two-state solution). In the absence of an agreement with the Palestinians, Gantz said that he would strengthen settlement blocs and maintain the Jordan Valley (the eastern edge of the West Bank) as Israel’s security border. Former IDF Chief of Staff and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, whose Telem bloc joined Hosen Leyisrael in late January, is a known opponent of two states, a position he reaffirmed after Gantz’s speech. How Yaalon’s positions figure in to Hosen Leyisrael’s program remains to be seen.

Levy-Abekasis has not elaborated on her own position regarding two states. She has described Likud as too right-wing for her. Yisrael Beiteinu’s official platform is the Liberman Plan, calling for two states with the annexation of settlements and the cession of Arab Israeli communities to an independent Palestine. With Levy-Abekasis’s break from Yisrael Beiteinu, her current position on this program is unclear.

Kulanu prioritized economic issues during its election campaign, including improving the standard of living, while remaining vague on foreign policy topics. The official party platform lacks a position on security issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, Moshe Kahlon has indicated his personal support for a two-state solution. Previously, Kahlon indicated his belief in a demilitarized Palestinian state as envisioned under Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2009 Bar-Ilan speech and criticized the prime minister for walking back on those remarks.