Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the Yisrael Beiteinu party, is a former Kach member who has served in governments with Netanyahu as defense and foreign minister.
Lieberman has long promoted one of Jewish Power's signature policies: that Israel's 1.8 million Palestinian citizens be expelled unless they declare loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state.
Lieberman has even called for "disloyal" Palestinian citizens to be "beheaded."
No miscegenationOther Jewish Power policies overlap with prevailing views in Netanyahu's Likud party, including the rejection of Palestinian statehood; support for the formal annexation of all or much of the West Bank; the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem; and vehement opposition to miscegenation, or relationships between Jews and Palestinians.
Smotrich, Jewish Power's main partner in Religious Zionism, shares many of its anti-Palestinian views but has previously served as Netanyahu's transport minister. He has called for Palestinian citizens to be denied housing and for Jewish-only maternity wards.
Jewish Power's leader, Ben Gvir is also a prominent activist in the violent settler enclave established in the Palestinian city of Hebron with Israeli state support.
In 2007, he was convicted of inciting racism and supporting a terror group after holding up signs reading, "Expel the Arab enemy" and "Rabbi Kahane was right: The Arab MKs [members of Knesset] are a fifth column."
He once prominently displayed in his home a photo of Baruch Goldstein, an extremist who killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslims at worship in Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque in 1994, in an effort to derail the Oslo accords.
As The Electronic Intifada has reported, a recently unearthed clip from 1995 of Ben Gvir shows him dressed as Goldstein for the Jewish holiday of Purim saying: "He is my hero."
Burn down churchesTrained as a lawyer, Ben Gvir has defended a series of far-right suspects in high-profile terrorism and hate-crime cases. Such work included two settlers who were charged with an arson attack on a Palestinian family in the village of Duma in 2015.
An 18-month-old baby was among the victims burnt to death.
Ben Gvir has also served as the lawyer for Lehava, an anti-miscegenation group whose members physically assault Palestinians they suspect of dating Jewish women.
Lehava's leader, Bentzi Gopstein, has also expressed support for burning down churches.
Netanyahu has promised the Religious Zionism alliance a seat on the Judicial Appointments Committee. Ben Gvir will hope to use that position to bring yet more settlers into the courts as judges.
At least two judges on Israel's high court - Noam Sohlberg and David Mintz - are known to live in the settlements.
Haaretz observed of the deal: "Netanyahu's actions are an admission that Kahanism is an ally, a frequent visitor and practically a member of the Likud family."
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