Two former National Religious Party chiefs formed a new Israeli political faction called Religious Zionism. Effi Eitam and Rabbi Yitzhak Levy officially broke away from the NRP on Wednesday after months of fighting, and said their new faction would join the right-wing National Union bloc.
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