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Yamin Yisrael
ימין ישראל
Founded24 July 1995
Split fromMoledet
IdeologyRight-wing
Most seats1 (1995-1996)

Yamin Yisrael (Template:Lang-he, lit. Right Israel) was a minor right-wing political party in Israel.

Background

The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet.[1] It ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.

In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%), again failing to cross the threshold.

The party did not run in the 2009 elections.

Ideology

The party's objectives were to;[2]

  • Replace the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
  • Institute a presidential system of government.
  • Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
  • Enforce the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
  • Rescind citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
  • Rescind large child allowances.
  • Rescind the grandfather clause of the Law of Return (which allows non Jews with a Jewish grandparent to claim Israeli citizenship).
  • Allow Israelis living abroad to vote.
  • Castigate CNN and the BBC for being "a facade for antisemitism".
  • Phase out US military aid to Israel

References

  1. ^ Mergers and Splits Amongst Parliamentary Groups Knesset website
  2. ^ A Jewish and Democratic Solution Paul Eidelberg, 18 December 2002