National Religious Party
The National Religious Party ( מפלגה דתית לאומית, Miflaga datit le'umit, short מפד"ל Mafdal ) was a religious, Zionist and nationalist party in Israel. It was also classified as extreme right.
It was in June 1956 from the bourgeois- centrist and Zionist Orthodox party intellectual center ( HaMisrachi ) and the Zionist- Orthodox Workers' Party ( HaPo'el haMisrachi ) was founded. By 1977, she was involved in the US-led Mapai and the Labor Party governments and had there usually held the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and one or two other ministries (social, health, postal, development, home affairs).
As of 1986, the National Religious Party was involved in Likud -led governments and supported the Gush Emunim settler movement. In 1992, the party in the opposition, however, was again represented from 1996 with two ministers in the government. In 2001, she decided against Ariel Sharon and went into opposition. Your penultimate party chairman was the former General Effi Eitam, which claimed in 2006: "We must expel the vast majority of Arabs in the West Bank from there and remove Israeli Arabs from the political system. " He described the Palestinians with Israeli citizenship as a " cancer on the body of the people " ( " סרטן בגוף האומה " )
The National Religious Party was elected by Jewish Israelis, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi origin. Yigal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, came from national-religious circles, and the National Religious Party was partly made responsible for the assassination.
At a press conference on November 4, 2008, the party announced its dissolution. In the announcement the following Party Convention November 18, 2008 the majority of the delegates voted for a resolution of the National Religious Party and the fresh start with a new party. Together with the National Union ( NU), Moledet and Tkuma the party was HaBajit haJehudi ( The Jewish Home ) was founded.
During the period of its existence, the National Religious Party participated in thirteen elections. At the parliamentary elections on 26 July 1955, the parties HaMisrachi and HaPo'el haMisrachi formed an electoral alliance with the name National Religious Front. In the elections on 28 March 2006, the National Religious Party formed an electoral alliance, among other things, with the party Moledet on the list Ichud Leumi - Mafdal. She was involved in 21 governments of Israel.
Party chairman
Since the merger in June 1956 until its dissolution on 18 November 2008, the National Religious Party has had six chairmen.
- Chaim - Moshe Shapira (1956-1970)
- Josef Burg (1970-1986)
- Zebulun Hammer (1986-1998)
- Yitzhak Levy (1998-2003)
- Ephraim Eitam (2003-2004)
- Zebulun Orlew (2005-2008)