Elections for the 13th Knesset were held in

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on 23 June 1992. The election resulted in the formation of a

Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the la ...

government, led by

Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until h ...

, helped by the failure of several small right wing parties to pass the

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. Voter turnout was 77.4%.

Parliament factions

The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 12th Knesset.

Results

Aftermath

Labour's

formed the twenty-fifth government on 13 July 1992, including Meretz and Shas in his coalition, which had 17 ministers. Hadash and the Arab Democratic Party also supported the government despite not being coalition members. Shas left the coalition in September 1993, and Yiud joined in January 1995. Rabin's government advanced the peace process to unprecedented levels; the Oslo Accords were signed with

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

's PLO in 1993 and the

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in 1994. The government's willingness to make peace with

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and concede the

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led to

Avigdor Kahalani Tat Aluf (Brigadier General) Avigdor Kahalani ( he, אביגדור קהלני, born 16 June 1944) is a former Israeli soldier and politician. Early life Avigdor Kahalani was born in Ness Ziona during the Mandate era. His parents, Moshe and Sa ...

and Emanuel Zisman leaving the party to form the

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. After Rabin's assassination on 4 November 1995,

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

took over as

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and formed a new government on 22 November 1995. His coalition was the same as before; Labor, Meretz and Yiud. Peres called early elections in 1996 in order to seek a mandate to continue the peace process,"Memory of Rabin likely to influence Israeli elections"
CNN, 5 February 1996 in which he lost. The Knesset term saw several defections; two MKs left the Labor Party to establish the

, whilst Nava Arad also left the party. Two MKs left Likud to establish Gesher, whilst

Efraim Gur Efraim Gur ( he, אפרים גור, born 1 September 1955) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1988 and 1996, and as Deputy Minister of Communications and Deputy Minister of Transportation in the early 19 ...

also left the party. Three MKs left Tzomet to establish

Yiud Yiud ( he, יעוד, lit. ''Mission'') was a small, short-lived political faction in Israel in the mid-1990s. Background The faction was formed on 7 February 1994 during the 13th Knesset when three MKs, Alex Goldfarb, Esther Salmovitz and Gonen ...

; one MK then left Yiud to establish

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. Yosef Azran left Shas. One MK left Moldet to establish

Yamin Yisrael Yamin Yisrael ( he, ימין ישראל, lit. ''Right Israel'') was a minor right-wing List of political parties in Israel, political party in Israel. Background The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet. It ...

, whilst

Yosef Ba-Gad Yosef Ba-Gad ( he, יוסף בא-גד, born 10 February 1932) is an Israeli former Rosh Yeshiva and politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 1996. Biography Ba-Gad was born in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Motza during ...

also left the party. United Torah Judaism split into

Agudat Yisrael Agudat Yisrael ( he, אֲגוּדָּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, lit., ''Union of Israel'', also transliterated ''Agudath Israel'', or, in Yiddish, ''Agudas Yisroel'') is a Haredi Jewish political party in Israel. It began as a political party re ...

(two seats) and

Degel HaTorah Degel HaTorah ( he, דגל התורה, , Banner of the Torah) is an Ashkenazi Haredi political party in Israel. For much of its existence, it has been allied with Agudat Yisrael, under the name United Torah Judaism. History Degel HaTorah ...

(two seats).

Notes

References

External links

Historical overview of the Thirteenth Knesset
Knesset website

Knesset website {{Israeli elections Israeli legislative

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