Mizrachi (political party)
HaMisrahi (Hebrew המזרחי, Mizrachi, an acronym for Merkaz Ruhani (Hebrew מרכז רוחני ), lit. Religious center ) was a party in Israel and one of the founding parties of the National Religious Party.
History
The religious- Zionist Mizrachi movement was founded in 1902 in Vilnius. One of the Mizrachi movement affiliated union was founded in 1921 under the name HaPo'el haMisrachi. In the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine, the movement turned into the party HaMisrachi.
At the first election in Israel after the Declaration of Independence on 25 January 1949, the party took an electoral alliance with the parties, Agudat Jisra'el, Poalei Agudat Jisra'el and HaPo'el haMisrachi under the name HaChasit haDatit haMe'uchedet (United Religious Front ) part. The coalition gained 16 seats in the election in the first Knesset, four of them presented HaMisrachi and became the third largest party in the Knesset after Mifleget Poale Eretz Israel ( Mapai ) and Mapam. In the first coalition government under the Ministerpräsdidenten David Ben-Gurion was Yehuda body Maimon Minister of Religion and veterans. Due to different views on religious education and the resolution of the Ministry of rationing and supply and the proposed appointment of an entrepreneur as Minister of Trade and Industry, the United Religious Front left the government coalition. After the different views were clarified, the second government led by David Ben- Gurion, with the participation of HaMisrachi formed. Yehuda Maimon body was again Minister of Religion and veterans.
Skip to second election on July 30, 1951 HaMisrachi approached without a partner and won two seats in the Knesset. In the following form a government with David Ben- Gurion as Prime Minister, Mordechai Nurock took over the office of the Postmaster and David Zvi Pinkas, the Minister of Transport. The neoplasms of the Government Cabinet in 1952, 1954 and 1955 during the second term of a member of the HaMisrachi took a Minister, supported the government but the government coalition.
In the third election on July 26, 1955 HaMisrachi entered into an electoral alliance with the party HaPo'el haMisrachi under the name National Religious Front at. The electoral coalition has won eleven MPs mandates in the third Knesset, of which two seats on HaMisrachi, and became the fourth largest party in the Knesset. In June 1956, the partners of the electoral alliance for the National Religious Party, which until the founding of the party HaBajit haJehudi ( The Jewish Home ) November 18, 2008, it merged the parties National Union (NU), Moledet, Tkuma and the National Religious Party, existed merged.