Agriculture and Development ( ar, زراعة وتطوير, ''Zira'ah wa-tatwir''; he, חקלאות ופיתוח, ''Hakla'ut VePituah'') was an

Arab satellite list The Arab satellite lists, Arab lists, or satellite parties were Israeli Arab satellite parties formed for the purposes of electoral support of Mapai (and later the Labor Party), and other Zionist parties between 1948 and the mid 1970s.Rebecca K ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

History

Agriculture and Development was an

Israeli Arab The Arab citizens of Israel are the largest ethnic minority in the country. They comprise a hybrid community of Israeli citizens with a heritage of Palestinian citizenship, mixed religions (Muslim, Christian or Druze), bilingual in Arabic an ...

organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections. Like other Israeli Arab parties at the time, it was associated with

David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion ( ; he, דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Adopting the name ...

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

party, as Ben-Gurion was keen to include Israeli Arabs in the functioning of the state in order to prove

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...

s and

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

s could co-exist peacefully and productively. It drew its support from Arabs living in the central area of Israel. In the elections, the party won only one seat, taken by its leader,

Faras Hamdan Faras Hamdan ( ar, فارس حمدان; he, פארס חמדאן, 1910 – 29 November 1966) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Agriculture and Development party between 1951 and 1959. Biography Hamdan wa ...

. Because of its association with

, the party joined the governing coalition in all four governments of the second Knesset. In the 1955 elections the party won one seat, retained by Hamdan, and was again part of the coalition. In the 1959 elections the party again won one seat, and joined the coalition, with

Mahmud Al-Nashaf Mahmud Al-Nashaf (, he, מחמוד א-נאשף; 1906 – 10 November 1979) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agriculture and Development between 1959 and 1961. Biography Born in Tayibe during the Ottoman Em ...

replacing Hamdan as leader. However, the party did not run in the 1961 elections.

List of Knesset members

References

External links

Party history
Knesset website {{Israeli political parties Arab political parties in Israel Defunct political parties in Israel Political parties established in 1951 1951 establishments in Israel