Chasit Jehudit Le'umit
Chasit Jehudit Le'umit (Hebrew: חֲזִית יְהוּדִית לְאוּמִּית, English: Hazit Yehudit LeUmit, lit: "Jewish National Front"), as an acronym also Chail (Hebrew: חי"ל, English: "Hayil") was an Israeli party that 2012 in which Otzma LeJisra'el , later renamed Otzma Jehudit , rose.
history
The party was founded in 2004 by Baruch Marzel in response to the Sharon Plan .
2006 Knesset election
Michael Ben-Ari ran for parliamentary elections on March 28, 2006 . The party won around 25,000 votes in the elections to the 17th Knesset and thus failed because of the threshold clause that required 62,000 votes.
- Party candidates were:
- Baruch Marzel
- Prof. Israel Hanukoglu (Hebrew: ישראל חנוקוגלו)
- Michael Ben-Ari
- Major General Rachamim Cohen (Hebrew: רחמים כהן)
- Musician Chen Ben-Elijahu (Hebrew: חן בן אליהו)
- Eleonor Schifrin (Hebrew: אליונור שיפרין)
- Prof. Paul Eidelberg (Hebrew: פול אידלברג)
- Schlomo Leinsky (Hebrew: שלמה ליינסקי)
- Ben-Zion Gopstein (Hebrew: בן ציון גפשטיין)
- Michal Pinto (Hebrew: מיכאל פינטו)
Knesset election 2009
In the parliamentary elections on February 10, 2009 for the 18th Knesset , the Chail party appeared together with the HaTikwa and Eretz Israel Schelanu parties under the name of National Union . This party received 3.3% of the vote and four seats in parliament. The top candidate Yaakov Katz (born September 29, 1951 in Jerusalem) and Michael Ben-Ari received mandates. Towards the end of the legislative period, Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari withdrew from the National Union , along with Arieh Eldad and his HaTikwa party , who had also left the National Union . On November 19, 2012, the motion by Arieh Eldad and Ben Ari was approved by the Knesset Committee to split off from the National Union and to found the Otzma LeJisra'el party. The HaTikwa and Chail parties merged to form the Otzma LeJisra'el party, which was founded on November 13, 2012 by Arieh Eldad and Michael Ben-Ari.