Yisra'el ba-Aliyah
Jisra'el ba-Alija ( Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל בעֲלִיָּה) Was a political party in Israel .
Meaning: עֲלִיָּה
The party was founded in 1996 by Refusenik Natan Sharansky . Together with another Refusenik, Juli-Joel Edelstein , a party name was chosen to show that this party was something special: its chairmen had to have all been in prison before they could enter politics. She represented the interests of the Jewish immigrants from the former USSR. The Hebrew word "Alija" עֲלִיָּה on the one hand stands for immigration and is intended to refer to this migration background; on the other hand, it also means something like at the peak and is intended to refer to the life of the refuseniks and party founders, who first had to go through a low point in their life - imprisonment in the USSR - before they were allowed to become politically active.
history
In the May 1996 elections, the party received 5.7% of the vote and seven seats, becoming the sixth largest party in the Knesset . She was part of the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu Likud and received two ministerial posts: Sharansky became Minister of Industry and Commerce, and Edelstein Minister of Immigration.
On February 23, 1999, shortly before the 1999 Knesset elections, Michael Nudelman and Yuri Stern left the Yisra'el ba-Aliyah party to form the new Aliyah party, which later merged with another party of immigrants of Russian origin. with Jisra'el Beitenu .
In 2003 the party went into Likud .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 14th Knesset
- ^ Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website