Shinui

Shinui ( מפלגת שינוי - Mifleget Shinui, German party of change ) is a Zionist, secular and liberal party in Israel. By 2009 she was a member of the Liberal International.

History

Shinui was founded in 1974 still under the impression of the Yom Kippur War. She has experienced several splits and mergers. In 1977 she participated in the Alliance " Democratic Movement for Change» ( Dash ) in the Knesset election in part; the electoral alliance was the third-strongest faction. The following year, the alliance fell apart. In the 1981 Knesset election Shinui was able to win only two seats. In this order they remained during the 1980s.

Electoral alliance Meretz

1992 Shinui graduated with Mapam and the civil rights movement Ratz together for the Meretz party alliance. Meretz was able to rise behind Avodah and Likud in the election on 23 June 1992 on the third force. Subsequently, Meretz party to the center-left governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. In 1996, Mapam, Ratz and Shinui to transform their alliance into a unified party. The Shinui chairman Amnon Rubinstein touting the merger, but a majority of party people was the social democratic orientation of the Meretz Party critically.

Era Poraz / Lapid

Under the leadership of Avraham Poraz in 1997 an independent Shinui split off again. She gave herself a liberal profile, both in economic policy as well as in religious matters of principle. 1999 handed Poraz the party chairmanship to the TV journalist Joseph "Tommy" Lapid. In the subsequent elections to the 15th Knesset on 17 May 1999 Shinui could achieve six mandates. In the parliamentary election in 2003, it rose even to the third strongest party with 15 of 120 seats and joined the government of Ariel Sharon. Lapid became Minister of Justice. Shinui supported the Sharon disengagement plan from Gaza - out later from the opposition - and was a driving force behind a very successful liberal economic policies.

In December 2004, the coalition broke with Likud Sharon to disagreements regarding the budget. Shinui would not support payment of several million euros to orthodox religious organizations and voted on first reading to the draft budget of the government. Sharon dismissed then the Shinui Minister.

Decline

Poraz, deputy Lapid in the party presidency, lost in 2006, surprisingly, the race for the top candidate in 2006 against Ron Levintal. In response Poraz, Lapid and nine other MPs left the party and formed on 26 January 2006, the secular faction. Shortly thereafter Hemi Doron and Eliezer Sandberg split the new party National home ( הבית הלאומי, Habayit HaLeumi ) from. The Secular fraction collected in the radically liberal- secular party Hetz ( Arrow, HaMiflaga HaChilonit - Zionit - secular Zionist party).

Another blow for Shinui was the establishment of liberal Kadima, which deprived her of centrist voters. As a result, failed Shinui in the election on 28 March 2006 clearly reflected in the two-percent hurdle. 2009, it did not occur to the election.

Chairman

  • Amnon Rubinstein, 1974-1996
  • Avraham Poraz, 1997-1999
  • Josef Lapid, 1999-2006
  • Ron Levintal, since 2006
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