He headed the Yisrael Hazaka party, which he established in May 2008 but failed to pass the electoral threshold in the 2009 Israeli legislative election and has been inactive since then.

His father was elected to the first Knesset as a representative of Mapam, before defecting to Maki, the Israeli Communist Party.

Sneh also commanded the medical unit at Operation Entebbe, and Yonatan Netanyahu died in his arms.

[5] Sneh stood out in his objection to the withdrawal from southern Lebanon, though he eventually accepted it following Prime Minister Ehud Barak's decision.

[citation needed] In 2014, in an interview with Al-Monitor, Sneh said the Israeli public has been "brainwashed" in recent years into believing there is no Palestinian peace partner by what he described as "well-oiled propaganda system of the Israeli regime" which he characterized as "anti-Palestinian" and "Goebbelsian".