Atid Ehad () is a

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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 ...

History

Atid Ehad was established in order to contest the 2006 Knesset elections, and was headed by

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. It primarily represented the interests of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, though its membership included non-Ethiopians such as Yitzakael Shtetzler and

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, who were second and third members on its Knesset List in the 2006 campaign. The party supported bringing to Israel the remaining Jews in

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and strengthening integration efforts for the community. In the 2006 elections, the party received 14,005 votes (0.45% of the total), not enough to cross the 2% threshold required to enter the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

. The party did not run in the

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. After being taken over by Yehezkel Shteltzer, the party registered to contest the

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, but withdrew from the elections less than a week before election day. It registered for the

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under the name "Protecting Our Children – Stop Feeding Them Porn", but after polls showed it would receive fewer than 30,000 votes, it dropped out, and Shtetzler endorsed

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. The party was revived in the build-up to the 2021 elections, when it was used as a "shelf party" (an inactive but still-registered party reactivated for use) for

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to enable him to run on the

Likud Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sha ...

list for the elections.בליכוד הגישו את הרשימה: אופיר סופר הוצב במקום 28
Kipa, 4 February 2021 On 14 June, after the swearing-in of the 36th government, Sofer split from the Likud faction and merged into the

Religious Zionist Party The Religious Zionist Party ( he, הציונות הדתית, HaTzionut HaDatit, The Religious Zionism), known as Tkuma ( he, תקומה, , Revival) until 2021 and still officially known as National Union–Tkuma ( he, האיחוד הלאומי-� ...

, increasing it from six to seven seats in the Knesset.

References

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