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La'am Politicians
La'am (, an abbreviation of Likud Avoda Mamlakhtit) was a political faction in Israel that formed part of Likud between 1976 and 1984. History Between its formation in 1973 and formal merger in 1988, Likud consisted of an alliance of several right wing parties. The two largest blocs were Herut and the Liberal Party, which had formed the Gahal alliance between 1965 and 1973. In 1973 the two parties were joined by the Free Centre, the Independent Centre (a breakaway from the Free Centre), the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel. In 1976, the latter three formed an alliance within the Likud bloc, named La'am, which consisted of eight of Likud's 39 seats. In the 1977 elections La'am remained at eight seats, with Likud growing to 43. On 15 May 1979, Moshe Shamir, the Movement for Greater Israel representative, left Likud to sit as an independent, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Peretz (politician Born 1936)
Yitzhak Peretz (; 3 June 1936 – 17 October 2002) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 1988. Biography Born in Casablanca in French Morocco in 1936, Peretz made aliyah to Israel in 1950. He attended the Mikveh Yisrael agricultural high school, and later Bar-Ilan University. In 1956 he joined Mapai. He worked as a teacher in Rishon LeZion between 1957 and 1963. In 1963 he became a member of Dimona city council. Two years later he joined the new Rafi, and following its leader David Ben-Gurion when he broke away to establish the National List in 1968. In 1971 he became mayor of Dimona, a post he held until 1974 when he was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list (an alliance of Herut, the Liberal Party, the Free Centre, the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel). He was re-elected on the Likud list in 1977. On 28 June 1977 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, a post he held until 15 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Disestablished In 1984
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Yafeh
Abraham Yoffe (, October 25, 1913 – April 11, 1983) was an Israel general during the Six-Day War. He later entered politics and served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1974 and 1977. Biography Yoffe was born in Yavne'el in 1913, during the era when the Ottoman Empire still controlled Palestine. He was one of four children born to Chaim and Miriam Yoffe. His father was a member of the Yoffe family, and in his early years, Avraham Yoffe attended the Mikveh Yisrael agricultural school. Military career At the age of 16 he joined the Haganah. In 1936, Yoffe had joined the Special Night Squads, a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit established by Orde Charles Wingate. Yoffe served as a squad leader in one of the squads, acting as Lt. Michael Grove second in command. During World War II, he served as a captain in the British Artillery Corps from 1940 until 1944. During the 1948 war, he was a battalion commander in the Golani brigade. On May 12, his batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert (; , ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009. The son of a former Herut politician, Olmert was first elected to the Knesset for Likud in 1973, at the age of 28. Olmert served as a minister without portfolio from 1988 to 1990, and as Ministry of Health (Israel), Minister of Health from 1990 until 1992. In 1993, he was elected Mayor of Jerusalem. He served two consecutive five-year terms before returning to national politics in 2003 to serve as Acting Prime Minister of Israel, Designated Acting Prime Minister, Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel, Minister of Trade and Communications Minister of Israel, Minister of Communications. Olmert also served as acting Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2006, following the resignation of incumbent minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In late 2005, Olmert joined Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in leaving Likud and forming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Cohen
Yigal Cohen (; 1928 – 6 December 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1974 and 1988. Biography Born in Tel Adashim during the Mandate era, during his youth Cohen co-ordinated the Youth Committee of the Moshavim Movement, and was a member of both the HaNoar HaOved and Mapai youth leadership secretariats. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a member of the Palmach's first brigade. He worked as a trainer for immigrant moshavim in the Jerusalem corridor, and later as a Gadna trainer in Europe, the United States and Africa for the Ministry of Defense. In 1965 he was part of the Rafi group that broke away from Mapai, and in 1968 switched to the new National List party, chairing its group in the Histadrut's Executive Committee. He won a place on the Likud list (an alliance of several right-wing parties including the National List, Herut and the Liberal Party) for the 1973 Knesset elections. Although he fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Israeli Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Israel on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 79%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p125 The election was postponed for two months because of the Yom Kippur War. Parliament factions The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 7th Knesset. Results Aftermath Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March 1974, including the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War. The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed the seventeenth government on 3 June 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simha Erlich
Simha Erlich (; 15 December 1915 – 19 June 1983) was an Israeli politician. Erlich was leader of the Liberal Party and served in the Knesset from 1969 to 1983. Erlich notably served as Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, where he was known for his efforts to liberalize the Israeli economy, and also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. Early life and career Erlich was born on 15 December 1915 in the village of Bachów, then part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in Austria-Hungary (now part of modern Poland). He was a member of the General Zionists youth movement. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and settled in Nes Ziona, where he worked as a farmer. He studied optics and founded a lens factory. Political career In 1955, he was elected to Tel Aviv city council, and became a member of the Liberal Party. In 1969, he quit the city council and was elected to the Knesset on the Gahal list (Gahal being a coalition between the Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Hirschson
Abraham Hirschson (; 11 February 1941 – 7 March 2022) was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 1981 and 1984, and again from 1992 until 2009. He also held the posts of Minister of Communications, Minister of Finance and Minister of Tourism. He resigned following allegations of corruption, and was ultimately convicted of stealing close to 2 million shekels from the National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman. Background Hirschson was born in Tel Mond and later resided in Tel Aviv. From 1970 to 1992, he was secretary-general for the National Youth League (the youth branch of the National Histadrut). He has been the chairman of the National Histadrut since 1995 and chairman of the National Health Fund since 1996 (the revisionist counterparts to the larger General Histadrut and General Health Fund respectively). He helped found the March of the Living programme in 1988, but has not been involved in the organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alignment (political Party)
The Alignment () was the name of two political alliances in Israel, both of which ended their existence by merging, in January 1968 and October 1991, into the Israeli Labor Party. The first Alignment was a 1965 alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda. The two parties continued to exist independently, but submitted joint electoral lists. Often called the Labor Alignment, the alliance lasted three years until a merger with Rafi (political party), Rafi in 1968 created the unitary Israeli Labor Party. The following year the Labor Party formed an alliance with Mapam, readopting the Alignment name. The two constituent parties remained separate, but with combined electoral campaigns and candidate lists. The second version of the Alignment lasted for more than two decades. At its formation in 1969, the second Alignment had 63 of 120 Knesset seats, the only time a parliamentary group in Israel has ever held a parliamentary majority. Although its majority was lost in the 1969 Israeli legislat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnon Linn
Amnon Linn (; 29 March 1924 – 21 July 2016) was an Israeli politician, jurist and member of Knesset. Biography Amnon Linn was born in Mishmar HaEmek. His parents were Hava and David (Dodia) Linkovich (later Linn). He became a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in 1940, and in 1942 joined the Palmach, fighting in Haifa. During this period he was injured and dismissed. He met his wife, Ruth Hushi, daughter of Abba Hushi in 1945, and married her later that same year. He has two sons - Shai and Ran, and one daughter - Orna. After he recovered from his injury he returned to the Haganah. He studied at the officers' course at the time of the War of Independence, and later served as an officer in the Carmel unit; in this capacity, he took part in the liberation of Haifa. He studied law at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics. Political career Linn joined Mapai, the ruling party, in 1951. Fluent in Arabic, he was appointed director of the Arab Department of the party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
