La'am (, an abbreviation of Likud Avoda Mamlakhtit) was a political faction in
Israel
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that formed part of
Likud
Likud (, ), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (), is a major Right-wing politics, right-wing, political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing par ...
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
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, 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
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, the Movement for Greater Israel representative, left Likud to sit as an independent,
[Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups]
Knesset website later establishing
Tehiya with
Geula Cohen. On 26 January 1981 three of its members,
Yigal Hurvitz,
Zalman Shoval and
Yitzhak Peretz, left Likud to re-establish the
National List as an independent party.
[ Hurvitz and Shoval left to form Telem, whilst Peretz returned to Likud and La'am.
La'am was reduced to five seats from Likud's 48 in the June 1981 elections, following disputes within Likud about the number of seats allocated to each faction in which many Herut members felt the Liberal Party and La'am were over-represented.Israel's Eleventh Knesset elections]
p89 On 26 October 1982 it was reduced to three seats as
Amnon Linn and Peretz defected to the
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[ However, it gained an extra MK when Avraham Hirschson replaced Liberal faction member Simha Erlich. In 1984, as part of a move to consolidate Likud, La'am merged into Herut. Four years later the Liberal Party and Herut formally merged to leave Likud as a unitary party.
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Knesset members
References
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