Herut – The National Movement

Herut - HaTnu'a HaLeumit ( He.: חרות - התנועה הלאומית, freedom - The National Movement ) is a nationalist party in Israel. It regards itself as the successor of the former Herut Party.

History

The party was founded on 23 February 1999, when Benny Begin, Michael Kleiner and David Re'em to the 14th Knesset Likud left during the Israeli parliamentary elections in 1996. On 1 February 2000 Michael Kleiner left the National Union by he formed the Herut party as an independent party in the Knesset. The Israeli parliament elections in 2003 the party was alone. It chose the letters נץ, translated " hawk ," and used the slogan ' the ' hawk 'on the right side. " The party reached only 1.1 %. Herut took again to the Israeli parliamentary elections in 2006 in part, again with the letters נץ. This time Michael Kleiner was accompanied by Elie Yossef and Israel Cohen. The party list was as follows:

In the elections, the party won only 0.07 %, which did not exceed the 2 % threshold. Before the Israeli parliamentary elections 2009 Michael Kleiner and Benny Begin went over to the Likud and the party did not occur more independently in the election.