It’s been two weeks since Ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked dropped a political bombshell by announcing that they are leaving HaBayit HaYehudi to create the New Right party. So far, their agenda seems rather disorganized.

The vision that they laid out Dec. 29 was of a party that would appeal to both religious and secular Jews. They gave examples from their personal lives: Bennett is a religious man who is married to a secular woman. Shaked is a secular woman from Tel Aviv who became a darling of the religious Zionist movement. Their message was of one big political house where right-wing religious and secular Jews could live together in harmony because they share a set of values and a similar worldview.

But even on the evening that they announced their big vision, it was unclear what was so groundbreaking about the idea. After all, religious and secular Jews share a home in the Likud, Yesh Atid and even Labor. The idea is not new. But after splitting from HaBayit HaYehudi along with Knesset member Shuli Mualem, Bennett and Shaked needed to create a distinct identity for another right-wing party. What they chose to present — joint leadership by a religious man and a secular woman — was kind of a gimmick. Then this week, on Jan. 9, Mualem cracked the image of a party that proposes a social partnership.

At a legal conference in Jerusalem, Mualem made remarks that should have disturbed any secular person who is considering voting for the new right-wing party. Mualem, a religious woman, expressed hope that Israel would adhere more to Jewish religious law. She put it, “As people whose lives are based upon commitment to the Torah, I think that is the essence of the battle: to bring the Torah into every aspect of our lives. And the entire State of Israel, God willing, will go more and more toward that place of commitment to Torah and halacha [Jewish law].” Mualem’s remarks were recorded and played on Army Radio the next day. As expected, they were a source of considerable embarrassment to the New Right.