Movement for a Greater Israel
The Movement for a Greater Israel ( Hebrew התנועה למען ארץ ישראל השלמה HaTenu'a Lema'an Eretz Yisrael HaSheleima ) was a political organization in Israel dedicated to a vision of Greater Israel during the 1960s and 1970s .
The organization was formed in July 1967, one month after Israel conquered the Gaza Strip , the Sinai Peninsula , the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in the Six Day War . She called on the Israeli government to annex the occupied territories and colonize them with Jews . Its founders were a mixture of Zionists of the workers, revisionist Zionists , writers and poets. For example, the movement included Nathan Alterman , Aharon Amir , Haim Gouri , Rachel Janait Ben-Zvi , Jitzchak Tabenkin , Icchak Cukierman , Zivia Lubetkin , Eliezer Livneh , Moshe Shamir , Schmuel Katz , Zev Vilnay , Uri Zvi Greenberg , Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Isser Harel , Israel Eldad , Dan Tolkowskie and Avraham Joffe .
In the 1969 elections to the Israeli parliament ( Knesset ), the movement entered the list as the “List for the Land of Israel”, but received only 7,561 votes (0.6%). So she failed at the 1% hurdle. After the 1973 general election she joined the Likud bloc, an alliance of Cherut , the Liberals , the Free Center Party and the National List . Likud won 39 seats, with the Greater Israel Movement being allocated one seat. This mandate was carried out by Avraham Joffe.
In 1976 the movement joined forces with the National List and the Independent Center (a fragment of the Free Center Party) to form La'am , which remained part of the Likud bloc until it merged with Cherut in 1984 . Two of its members, Moshe Shamir and Zvi Shiloah , were later elected to the Knesset for the Likud and Techija parties.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appendix B - Israel: Political Parties and Organizations . Library of Congress
- ^ Moshe Shamir Knesset website
- ↑ Zbi Shiloah . Knesset website