Ahva ( he, אחווה, ''Brotherhood'') was a short-lived

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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 ...

, one of several spinoffs created by the collapse of Dash.

Background

Ahva was formed on 8 July 1980 when two MKs ( Shafik Asaad and Shlomo Eliyahu) broke away from the Democratic Movement,Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups
Knesset website itself a relatively new party, having been formed in 1978 when Dash split up (also creating

Shinui Shinui ( he, שִׁינּוּי, lit. ''Change'') was a Zionist, secular, and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third-largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by ...

and Ya'ad). On 17 September they were joined by

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, also from the Democratic Movement. However, like its two immediate predecessors, Ahva also suffered from instability. Nof defected to

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on 28 January 1981, whilst Asaad left the party to join Telem (another newly formed party) on 15 June. By the end of the Knesset session in June 1981, only Eliayhu remained in the party (though it had outlasted the Democratic Movement, which folded in March 1981). The party did not run in the

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and subsequently disappeared.

References

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Party history
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