Yisrael HaMithadeshet ( he, ישראל המתחדשת, lit. ''Renewed Israel''), formerly known as Aliyah (, lit. ''Immigration'' but also an acronym for ''Amenu LiMa'an Yisrael HaMithadeshet'' (, lit. ''We People For a Renewed Israel'')) is a political party in Israel.

Background

The party was formed on 23 February 1999 during the 14th Knesset when MKs

Michael Nudelman Michael Nudelman ( he, מיכאל נודלמן, 30 June 1938 – 14 February 2019) was an Israelis, Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Aliyah (political party), Aliyah, the National Union (Israel), Nati ...

and Yuri Stern, both immigrants from Russia, broke away from Natan Sharansky's Yisrael BaAliyah. Splits had appeared when the party decided to vote against an amendment to the Religious Services Law that blocked Reform and Conservative Jews from Religious Councils, but Nudelman and Stern did not turn up to vote. After the split, Nudelman initially suggested the party be named ''Shiluv'' ( he, שילוב, lit. ''Integration''), but instead ''

Aliyah Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the Israel, State of Israel ...

'' was chosen. For the

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the party ran as part of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu list, with both Nudelman and Stern retaining their seats. Aliyah was still in existence as a faction within Yisrael Beiteinu in 2005. In that year Nudelman filed a lawsuit against Yisrael Beiteinu for using five million shekels of funds belonging to Aliyah for municipal election campaigns. Stern remained an MK for the party until his death in 2007; Nudelman defected to Kadima during the

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after serving as an independent. Renamed Yisrael Mithadeshet, the party ran as an independent entity in the

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with Nudelman as its head, but failed to win any seats.

References

External links

Aliah - For a Renewed Israel
Knesset website {{Israeli political parties Defunct political parties in Israel Political parties established in 1999 1999 establishments in Israel 2009 disestablishments in Israel Political parties disestablished in 2009 Russian-Jewish culture in Israel