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founded in 1987.

Background

The New Liberal Party was formed in mid-1987 as an alliance of the Independent Liberals and a number of former Likud Liberals, led by Yitzhak Berman, who had briefly organized as the Liberal Center in 1986 under a generally right-leaning platform that nevertheless supported ceding part of the West Bank in a peace treaty with Jordan. It presented a joint list with

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for the 1988 elections, which won two seats. The party formed a faction in the Knesset on 15 March 1990 during the twelfth Knesset by five MKs who had broken away from

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. Originally known as the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea, all five MKs were former members of the original

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, which had merged into Likud in 1988. Despite breaking away from his party, the new faction joined

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's government, with

Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i ( he, יצחק מודעי, 17 January 1926 – 14 May 1998) was an Israeli politician who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career. Biography Yitzhak Madz ...

appointed

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. On 18 June 1990

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returned to Likud, as did Yosef Goldberg on 4 December that year. In March 1992, shortly before the elections that year, the party renamed itself the ''New Liberal Party''. However, it won only 0.6% of the vote, failing to cross the

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and subsequently disappeared. The party did not participate in the 1996 elections.

Leaders

Election results

Knesset Members

References

External links

New Liberal Party
Knesset website
Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea
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