| Defense Secretary in February 2020 In April 2011, together with , he co-founded , which claims to have 94,000 Israeli members | With the outbreak of the in October 1973, Jim Bennett returned to Israel to fight in the , serving in an artillery unit on the front |
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| In spite of this, Yamina won seven seats in the in March | He returned to the Knesset on 6 December after opted to vacate his seat, having temporarily had to resign as a minister in order to do so |
In October 2015, Bennett resigned from the Knesset in order to allow to take his seat.
30| Bennett was chosen as a target for proposed sanctions because of his work in opposing the 2010 settlement freeze while he was director of the , actively supporting annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, and "pressing strongly for a policy of creeping annexation | Bennett responed that he would "work to reinforce Israeli-Moroccan relations in all areas" |
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| He was given a choice of remaining in Sayeret Matkal but as a regular operator rather than a commander or transferring to the commando unit to receive a command position, and chose to transfer to Maglan | In May 2020, with negotiations to form a new government between Netanyahu and , leader of the centrist , Yamina announced that it would go into the opposition, ending Bennett's tenure as Defense Minister |
The incident resulted in a wave of international condemnation, and the subsequent diplomatic pressure caused Israel to end Operation Grapes of Wrath sooner than planned.