Movement for Greater Israel

The movement for a Greater Israel (Hebrew: התנועה למען ארץ ישראל השלמה, Eretz Yisrael HaTenu'a Lema'an HaSheleima ) was a political organization in Israel that had been prescribed during the 1960s and 1970s, a vision of Greater Israel.

The organization was formed in July 1967, a month after Israel to the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights captured in the Six - Day War. She called on the Israeli government to annex the occupied territories and to settle with the Jews. Its founders were a mixture of Zionists of the workers, Revisionist Zionists, writers and poets. For example, belonged to the movement Nathan Alterman, Aharon Amir, Haim Gouri Rachel Janait Ben- Zvi, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Icchak Cukierman, Zivia Lubetkin, Eliezer Livneh, Moshe Shamir, Shmuel Katz, Zev Vilnay, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isser Harel, Israel Eldad, Dan Tolkowskie and Avraham Joffe.

In the elections to the Israeli parliament (Knesset ) 1969, the movement appeared as " list for the Land of Israel " to, but received only 7,561 votes (0.6%). Thus, it failed at the 1 % barrier. After the parliamentary elections in 1973, she joined the Likud, an alliance of Herut, the Liberals, the free Centre Party and the National List. The Likud won 39 seats with the Movement for Greater Israel a seat has been allocated. This mandate was perceived by Avraham Yoffe.

1976 joined the movement with the National List and the Independent Centre ( a fragment of the free Centre Party ) and founded La'am, this party remained a part of the Likud Party, until it merged with Herut 1984. Two of its members, Moshe Shamir, and Zvi Shiloah, were later elected to the Knesset for Likud and the parties Techija.

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• Nationalist Party
• Zionist Organization
• Founded in 1967
• Historic Party ( Israel)