Yiud ( he, יעוד, lit. ''Mission'') was a small, short-lived

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in the mid-1990s.

Background

The faction was formed on 7 February 1994 during the

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when three MKs, Alex Goldfarb, Esther Salmovitz and

Gonen Segev Gonen Segev ( he, גונן שגב, born 6 January 1956) is a former Minister of Energy & Infrastructure of Israel, member of Knesset, and pediatrician. In 2005 he was convicted of forgery, credit card fraud and attempting to smuggle drugs. In ...

broke away from

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, following a disagreement with the party's leader, Rafael Eitan. They joined

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's government, with Segev as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, and Goldfarb as Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction. On 27 November 1995, Goldfarb and Salmovitz later broke away to form

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, leaving Segev as the faction's only member. Yiud did not compete in the 1996 elections and subsequently disappeared.

References

External links

Yiud
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