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Religious Torah Front
The Religious Torah Front ( he, חזית דתית תורתית, ''Hazit Datit Toratit'') was a political alliance in Israel composed of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael. History The Religious Torah Front was formed when the Ultra-orthodox parties Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael decided to contest the 1955 elections on a joint list. In the election the party won 4.7% of the vote and six seats, an improvement on the 3.6% (five seats) won by the parties individually in the 1951 elections, but were not included in David Ben-Gurion's coalition government. During the Knesset session the party changed its name to Agudat Yisrael - Poalei Agudat Yisrael. However, they changed it back to Religious Torah Front before the 1959 elections. In the 1959 ballot, the party again won 4.7% of the vote and six seats but remained outside the government. Due to internal disagreements, the party split into its constituent parts before the 1961 elections, with Agudat Yisrael takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties In Israel
Israel's political system is based on proportional representation and allows for a multi-party system with numerous parties represented in the 120-seat Knesset. A typical Knesset includes many factions represented. This is because of the low election threshold required for a seat – 1 percent of the vote from 1949 to 1992, 1.5 percent from 1992 to 2003, 2 percent from 2003 to 2014, and 3.25 percent since 2015. In the 2015 elections, for instance, ten parties or alliances cleared the threshold, and five of them won at least ten seats. The low threshold, in combination with the nationwide party-list system, makes it all but impossible for a single party to win the 61 seats needed for a majority government. No party has ever won a majority of seats in an election, the most being 56, won by the Alignment grouping in the 1969 elections (the Alignment had briefly held a majority of seats before the elections following its formation in January 1969). As a result, while only four par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Air Force
The Israeli Air Force (IAF; he, זְרוֹעַ הָאֲוִיר וְהֶחָלָל, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces. It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. , Aluf Tomer Bar has been serving as the Air Force commander. The Israeli Air Force was established using commandeered or donated civilian aircraft and obsolete and surplus World War II combat aircraft. Eventually, more aircraft were procured, including Boeing B-17s, Bristol Beaufighters, de Havilland Mosquitoes and P-51D Mustangs. The Israeli Air Force played an important part in Operation Kadesh, Israel's part in the 1956 Suez Crisis, dropping paratroopers at the Mitla Pass. On June 5, 1967, the first day of the Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force performed Operation Focus, debilitating the opposing Arab air forces and attaining air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Jewish Political Parties
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-paganism or Hinduism Christian Traditional Christian denominations * Eastern Orthodox Church, the world's second largest Christian church, that accepts seven Ecumenical Councils *Oriental Orthodox Churches, a Christian communion that accepts three Ecumenical Councils Modern denominations * True Orthodox Churches, also called Old Calendarists, a movement that separated from the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church in the 1920s over issues of ecumenism and calendar reform * Reformed Orthodoxy (16th–18th century), a systematized, institutionalized and codified Reformed theology * Neo-orthodoxy, a theological position also known as ''dialectical theology'' * Paleo-orthodoxy, (20th–21st century), a movement in the United States focusing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Political Party Alliances In Israel
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Avraham Verdiger
Avraham Verdiger ( he, אברהם ורדיגר, 6 May 1921 – 27 November 2013) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for several ultra-Orthodox parties between 1965 and 1996. Biography Born in Łódź in Poland, Verdiger made aliyah as a Zionist returnee to Mandatory Palestine in 1947. He was on the Poalei Agudat Yisrael list for the 1965 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 21 December 1967 as a replacement for the deceased Ya'akov Katz. He was re-elected in elections in 1969 and 1973 (in which Poalei Agudat Yisrael ran as part of the Religious Torah Front alliance), before losing his seat in the 1977 elections. In 1984 he joined the new Morasha party, and was elected to the Knesset on its list. Prior to the 1988 elections the party joined Agudat Yisrael, and Verdiger was re-elected on their list. On 27 November 1990, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs. He lost his seat and ministerial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo-Jacob Gross
Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross (, born 6 December 1908, died 7 July 2003) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front in several spells between 1959 and 1981. Biography Born in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, Gross was educated at a heder and yeshivas, and was a member of Young Agudat Yisrael in Translyvania, later becoming the secretary of the Transylvanian branch of Agudat Yisrael. During World War II he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp, and his wife and two children were killed in Auschwitz. After his camp was liberated by the Red Army, he and some friends established an absorption centre for Holocaust orphans and orphans of the Theresienstadt concentration camp expulsion. In 1950, he made aliyah to Israel, where he worked for the Central Bureau of Statistics. He was on the Religious Torah Front list (an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael) for the 1955 elections, but failed to win a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz ( he, יהודה מאיר אברמוביץ, born 24 July 1914, died 20 April 2007) was an Israeli rabbi and politician. He served as general secretary of Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981. One of his achievements was the introduction of legislation requiring drivers of vehicles to wear seat belts. Early years Abramowitz was born in Konstantynów Łódzki in Congress Poland, part of the Russian Empire to Tzvi Yitzchok Abramowicz, who had been the '' shochet'' for Rav Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, the Rebbe of Alexander, and had been a chosid of the '' Chidushei Harim'' of Ger. When he was just nine months old his father died; he was orphaned of his mother as a teenager. Shortly afterwards, he was accepted as a student in the prestigious Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. When Rabbi Meir Shapiro introduced the Daf Yomi, he dispatched the students of his yeshiva to del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Porush
Menachem Porush ( he, מנחם פרוש, 2 April 1916 – 22 February 2010) was an Israelis, Israel politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and its alliances between 1959 and 1975, and again from 1977 until 1994. Biography Early life Porush, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, was born in Jerusalem in 1916 to Rabbi Moshe Glickman-Porush, and studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. In 1932 he was expelled from Etz Chaim for unseemly conduct at a Purim party, where he allegedly slighted chief rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. (He later stated that he did not know ahead of time that Rabbi Kook would be denigrated in the Purim spiel, Purim play.) After that he went abroad to work as a correspondent for Orthodox Jewish publications, returning in 1938. By 1949, he had become assistant editor of the newspaper ''Kol Yisrael (newspaper), Kol Yisrael''. In 1954 he became a member of the Agudat Yisrael Center in Israel, and a member of the Executive of the World Agudath Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyamin Mintz
Binyamin Mintz ( he, בנימין מינץ, 12 January 1903 – 30 May 1961) was an Israeli politician who served briefly as Minister of Postal Services from July 1960 until his death. Biography Born in Łódź in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Mintz studied in a Hasidic Ger school, and was a member of Young Agudat Yisrael. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1925, and worked in construction and as a printer. In 1933, he joined Poalei Agudat Yisrael, and was later a member of the Provisional State Council. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset on the list of the United Religious Front (an alliance of the four main religious parties). Re-elected in 1951, 1955, and 1959, he was appointed Minister of Postal Services by David Ben-Gurion on 17 July 1960, serving until his death the following May. The village of Yad Binyamin Yad Binyamin ( he, יַד בִּנְיָמִין, lit. ''Binyamin Memorial'') is a community settlement in central Israel. The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo Lorincz
Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz ( he, שלמה לורינץ; 5 March 1918 – 19 October 2009) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael from 1951 until 1984, and a close confidant of many gedolim. Biography Born in Budapest, between 1933 and 1935, he studied with Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald at the Papa Yeshiva in Hungary. In late 1935, he went to Poland to study at the Mir Yeshiva. He then returned to Hungary and from there Lorincz made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1939, and was involved in illegal immigration of Jews from Hungary. In his youth, he was involved in the radical underground organisation Brit HaKanaim, which sought to establish a Halakhic state in Israel by imposing Jewish religious law in the country. In 1949, he was amongst the founders of moshav Komemiyut, and later helped found two youth villages: Sde Hemed (now a moshav) and Hazon Yehezkel (now named Aluma). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak-Meir Levin
Yitzhak-Meir Levin, ( he, יצחק-מאיר לוין, pl, Izaak Meir Lewin; 30 January 1893 – 7 August 1971) was a Haredi politician in Poland and Israel. One of 37 people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence, he served in several Israeli cabinets, and was a longtime leader and Knesset minister for Agudat Yisrael and related parties. Biography Yitzhak Meir Levin was born as Izaak Meir Lewin in Góra Kalwaria (known as ''Ger'' in Yiddish) in the Congress Poland part of the Russian Empire. He was a paternal descendant of Chanokh Heynekh Levin (1789-1870). In his early years, he studied at yeshiva and received Semikhah. He married the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, head of the influential Ger hasidic dynasty [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ya'akov Katz (politician Born 1906)
Ya'akov Katz (, born 28 December 1906, died 21 December 1967) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Religious Torah Front and Poalei Agudat Yisrael between 1955 and 1967. Biography Born in Zolochiv in Galicia in Austria-Hungary (today in Ukraine, from 1919 to 1939 in Poland), Katz received an ultra-Orthodox education, and joined Young Agudat Yisrael. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, and settled in Haifa, where he became secretary of the local branch of Poalei Agudat Yisrael. He also served as director of the organisation's Immigrant Absorption Department for the north of the country. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Katz served as a member of the Situation Committee and Mobilization Committee. In 1950 he was elected to Haifa city council, on which he served until 1967. The following year he became a member of its directorate (on which he remained until 1967) and deputy mayor, a position he held until 1959. In 1955 he was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
