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Yamin Yisrael

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Yamin Yisrael
ימין ישראל
LeaderShaul Gutman
Miriam Lapid
Eleonora Shifrin
Founded24 July 1995
Split fromMoledet
Political positionRight-wing
Most MKs1 (1995–96)
Election symbol
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Yamin Yisrael (Hebrew: ימין ישראל, lit.'Right Israel') was a minor right-wing political party in Israel.

Background

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The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet.[1] It ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.

In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%) and again failing to cross the threshold.

The party did not run in the 2009 elections.

Ideology

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The party's objectives were to:[2]

  • Replace the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
  • Institute a presidential system of government.
  • Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
  • Enforce the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
  • Rescind citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
  • Rescind large child allowances.
  • Rescind the "grandfather clause" of the Law of Return (which allows individuals with a Jewish grandparent, but not recognised halakhically as Jews to claim Israeli citizenship).
  • Allow Israelis living abroad to vote.
  • Castigate CNN and the BBC for being "a facade for antisemitism".
  • Phase out U.S. military aid to Israel.

References

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  1. ^ "Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups". Knesset. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. ^ Jewish and Democratic Solution to the Arab Problem Paul Eidelberg, 17 April 2002
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