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Leader Of The Opposition (Israel)
In Israel, the Leader of the Opposition (, ''Rosh HaOpozitzya'') is the politician who leads the Leader of the opposition, Official Opposition in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The Leader of the Opposition is, by constitutional convention (political custom), convention, the leader of the largest political party in the Knesset that is not in (or supports) the Cabinet of Israel, government. History Informal role, until 2000 Until 2000, the role of the Opposition Leader was not an official position, but rather an honorary role. The Leader of the Opposition was the leader of the largest party not in government. Even with the absence of a law defining the role of the Opposition Leader, it was customary for the Prime Minister of Israel, Prime Minister to hold regular meetings with the leader of the largest opposition party. However, this was done only at the prerogative of the Prime Minister. Formalised role, post-2000 In early 2000, two bills to amend the Opposition Leader's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid ( ; born 5 November 1963) is an Israeli politician of the centrist Yesh Atid party and a former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in that role from 2020 to 2021. He had also previously served as the 14th prime minister of Israel from 1 July to 29 December 2022, the second Alternate Prime Minister of Israel, alternate prime minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett from 2021 to 2022, and also as the Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 to 2014. He is also the leader of Yeah Atid since the party's founding in 2010. Before entering politics in 2012, Lapid was an author, TV presenter and news anchor. The centrist Yesh Atid party, which he founded, became the second-largest party in the Knesset by winning 19 seats in its first 2013 Israeli l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Government Of Israel
The second government of Israel was formed during the first Knesset. David Ben-Gurion made an attempt to form a minority government consisting of Mapai and Sephardim and Oriental Communities on 17 October, but it was not approved by the Knesset. Two days later President Chaim Weizmann asked Progressive Party leader Pinchas Rosen to form a government, Jewish Agency for Israel but it was Ben-Gurion who finally managed to do so on 1 November 1950. The coalition partners were the same as in the first government: , the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The Third Knesset
The 120 members of the third Knesset were elected on 26 July 1955. The breakdown by party was as follows: *Mapai: 40 *Herut: 15 *General Zionists: 13 *National Religious Party: 11 *Ahdut HaAvoda: 10 *Mapam: 9 *Religious Torah Front: 6 * Maki: 6 * Progressive Party: 5 *Democratic List for Israeli Arabs: 2 *Progress and Work: 2 *Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development (, ''Zira'ah wa-tatwir''; , ''Hakla'ut VePituah'') was an Arab satellite list in Israel. History Agriculture and Development was an Israeli Arab organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections. Like other Israeli Ara ...: 1 List of members Replacements External linksMembers of the Third KnessetKnesset website {{Knesset members 03 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh Government Of Israel
The seventh government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 3 November 1955 following the July 1955 elections. His coalition included Mapai, the National Religious Front, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, and the Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. On 17 December 1957 Ben-Gurion accused Ahdut HaAvoda ministers of leaking information about IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan's trip to West Germany to the press and demanded their resignation. Jewish Agency for Israel The government fell after Ben-Gurion resigned on 31 December 1957 over the issue, but remained in place until Ben-Gurion formed the eighth government a week later. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herut
Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. Some of their policies were compared to those of the Nazi party. Early years Foundation and platform Herut was founded by Menachem Begin on 15 June 1948 as a successor to the Revisionist Irgun, a militant group in Mandate Palestine. The new party was a challenge to the Hatzohar party established by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Herut also established an eponymous newspaper, with many of its founding journalists defecting from Hatzohar's '' HaMashkif''. Objection to withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and negotiations with Arab states formed the party's main platform in the first Knesset election. The party vigorously opposed the ceasefire agreements with the Arab states until the annexation of Gaza Strip and the West Bank, both before and after the election. Herut differentiated itself by refusing to recogni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Begin (990044423610205171) (cropped)
Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'', ; (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of both Herut and Likud and the prime minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist Zionism, Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a Irgun#Revolt, revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the Mandatory Palestine, British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency for Palestine#Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, targeted the British in Palestine, with a notable attack being the King David Hotel bombing. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and, as its chief, Begin was described by the British government as the "leader of the notorious terrorist organisation" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth Government Of Israel
The sixth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the second Knesset on 29 June 1955. Sharett dropped the General Zionists and the Progressive Party from his coalition, which included Mapai, Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. The only changes to the cabinet from the previous government were the dropping of General Zionist ministers Yosef Serlin, Israel Rokach and Yosef Sapir; instead of appointing new ministers to the cabinet to replace them, Sharett divided their portfolios out between existing ministers. Although his party departed from the coalition, Progressive Party MK Pinchas Rosen remained Minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a .... The gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett (; born Moshe Chertok (); 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was the second prime minister of Israel and the country’s first foreign minister. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the Israeli War of Independence. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency. He also founded the Jewish Brigade, which fought with the British Army during World War II. A member of Mapai, Sharett's term was both preceded and succeeded by the premiership of David Ben-Gurion. Biography Moshe Sharett was born in Kherson in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine) to the family of and Fanya née Lev (). In 1906 the immigrated to Ottoman Palestine. For two years, 1906–1907, the family lived in a rented house in the village of Ein-Sinya, north of Ramallah. In 1910 his family moved to Jaffa, then became one of the founding families of Tel Aviv. He graduated from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Government Of Israel
The fifth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the 1951 Israeli legislative election, second Knesset on 26 January 1954, and was the first government not led by David Ben-Gurion. Sharett kept the same coalition partners as during the Fourth government of Israel, fourth government, i.e. Mapai, the General Zionists, the Progressive Party (Israel), Progressive Party, Mizrachi (political party), Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. The only changes to the previous government were Sharett taking over as PM, Pinhas Lavon as Defense Minister of Israel, Minister of Defense, the addition of Zalman Aran as a Minister without Portfolio and the dropping of the two Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi Deputy Ministerial posts. Ben-Gurion returned to the government in February 1955, replacing Lavon following the former's resignation over the Lavon Affair. The government fell when Sharett resigned on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourth Government Of Israel
The fourth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion during the second Knesset on 24 December 1952. History Ben-Gurion dropped the ultra-orthodox parties Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael from his coalition and replaced them with the General Zionists and the Progressive Party, who formed the government together with Mapai, Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. The government fell when Ben-Gurion resigned on 6 December 1953 and moved to the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker Sde Boker () is a kibbutz in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Best known as the retirement home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In it had a population of . .... References External linksFourth Government of IsraelKnesset website {{Israeli governments 04 1952 establishments in Israel 1953 disestablishments in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The Second Knesset
The 120 members of the second Knesset were elected on 30 July 1951. The breakdown by party was as follows: *Mapai: 45 *General Zionists: 20 *Mapam: 15 *Hapoel HaMizrachi: 8 *Herut: 8 * Maki: 5 * Progressive Party: 4 *Democratic List for Israeli Arabs: 3 *Agudat Yisrael: 3 *Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 2 *Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2 * Mizrachi: 2 *Progress and Work: 1 *Yemenite Association: 1 *Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development (, ''Zira'ah wa-tatwir''; , ''Hakla'ut VePituah'') was an Arab satellite list in Israel. History Agriculture and Development was an Israeli Arab organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections. Like other Israeli Ara ...: 1 List of members Replacements External linksMembers of the Second KnessetKnesset website {{Knesset members 02 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
