Meimad

Meimad (acronym of Medina Yehudit, Medina Demokratit - Jewish State, Democratic State ) is an Israeli founded in 1988, the Left Party. It emphasizes the compatibility of the values ​​of the Halacha with those of democracy and turns dar. as religious- Zionist alternative to the National Religious Party

It is often allied with the Labour Party ( Avoda ) and entered the 1999 election alliance of Ehud Barak, agate Yisrael ( Israel A ), at. The reason was their own statements in accordance with the fact that all other religious parties Benjamin Netanyahu supported and whose election campaign gave the impression that it was a religious duty to vote for the right-wing parties.

The Meimad represents, to the emphasis on religious issues, values ​​similar to other social democratic parties. They lobby for religious education in Israel's public schools and support rabbinical courts in addition to the civil courts. Currently, the party of Rabbi Yehuda Amital is performed. In the Knesset elections of 2003, she won along with the Labor Party 14.5% of the vote.