Jisra'el Beitenu

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Jisra'el Beitenu
Hebrew ישראל ביתנו
russian Наш дом - Израиль
german  Our home Israel
Logo of the Jisra'el Beitenu
Avigdor Lieberman 2017.jpg
Party leader Avigdor Lieberman
founding 1999
Headquarters Jerusalem , Israel
Alignment Nationalism
Revisionist Zionism
Secularism
Right-wing populism
Parliament seats
7/120
( 2020 )
Website www.beytenu.org

Jisra'el Beitenu (spelling also: Israel Beitenu ; Hebrew ישראל ביתנו; Russian Наш дом - Израиль / Nasch dom - Israil; German: "Our home Israel") is a secular - nationalist Israeli party . It refers to the ideas of Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky , the founder of revisionist Zionism . Jisra'el Beitenu was founded in 1999 by USSR- born Avigdor Lieberman . The party's main electorate is Israel's over a million Russian and Eastern European immigrants, but it has also gained followers among other Israelis. The three basic principles of the party are: unity of the nation, the state of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, no citizenship without loyalty.

In the parliamentary elections in Israel on September 17, 2019 , the party received 6.99% of the vote; it influences the question of who will be the next prime minister of Israel .

Name similarity in German exists with the national religious party Jüdisches Heim .

history

In the 1999 parliamentary elections in Israel , Yisra'el Beitenu won 2.6% and four seats in the Knesset .

In 2000, Jisra'el Beitenu joined the National Union , a list of three right-wing national parties that ran together in the 2003 parliamentary elections in Israel . The alliance won seven seats, four of which went to Jisra'el Beitenu. Party leader Lieberman became transport minister in Ariel Sharon’s cabinet , but dismissed in the spring of 2004 for protesting against the Gaza withdrawal , and Jisra'el Beitenu then withdrew from the government.

In the parliamentary elections in March 2006 , the party won eleven seats with just under 9% of the vote. Initially in the opposition, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brought Jisra'el Beitenu into the government in October 2006, according to media reports, to distract attention from the failures in the Lebanon war . However, she left the coalition in January 2008 in protest of the offers Olmert made during negotiations with the Palestinian Authority .

The 2009 parliamentary elections , immediately after Operation Cast Lead , further strengthened Lieberman's party as the third strongest force. Jisra'el Beitenu received 11.70% of the vote and 15 seats. In a coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Lieberman became Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

In the 2013 general election , Jisra'el Beitenu ran on a joint list with the Likud party . This group was dissolved on July 7, 2014. The cause was differences of opinion between Netanyahu and Lieberman over the military offensive Operation Protective Edge .

In the parliamentary elections in 2015 the party won six seats. In May 2016, Jisra'el Beitenu joined the ruling coalition; Lieberman became Secretary of Defense. In November 2018, Jisra'el Beitenu withdrew from the ruling coalition; Lieberman described the ceasefire negotiated by Netanyahu with Hamas as a "surrender to terror".

In the general election in April 2019 , the party won five seats. A renewed coalition under Netanyahu failed because of the irreconcilable differences between the secular Jisra'el Beitenu and the ultra-orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism . The Knesset therefore decided to dissolve itself.

In the September 2019 election, Jisra'el Beitenu gained three seats for a total of eight. After the election, Lieberman repeated his call for a grand coalition: "We only have one option, a large, liberal unity government with Yisrael Beitenu, Likud and Blau-Weiß."

program

Jisra'el Beitenu is striving for a peace agreement with the Palestinians, but wants to replace the land-for-peace approach with a mutual exchange of territories and population groups based on the principle of peace-for-peace, land-by-land. There would be no justification for creating a Palestinian state that excludes Jews while Israel is a binational state with an Arab minority of more than 20 percent.

The party supports the further development of the free market economy. Foreign investors are to be attracted by financial incentives, tax rebates and bureaucracy cuts, as well as government support for research and development programs.

Jisra'el Beitenu strives for a "modern" society based on Jewish tradition and Zionism, which also tolerates different religious views.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Israeli Election Source Kit ( English ) The Israel Project. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ spiegel.de November 21, 2019: A state at the limit
  3. ↑ Avigdor Liberman, MK ( English ) mfa.gov.il. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ Lieberman is supposed to consolidate Olmert's fragile coalition. In: THE WORLD. October 24, 2006, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ with 15 mandates. Netanyahu to form a new government in Israel , Der Spiegel , February 20, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
  6. ^ Newsletter of the Embassy of the State of Israel, July 7, 2014
  7. ↑ Lieberman joins government coalition. In: FAZ. May 25, 2016, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Defense Secretary Avigdor Lieberman resigns. In: THE TIME. November 14, 2018, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ New election in Israel. In: Federal Center for Political Education. September 13, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Now it depends on Lieberman. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 18, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .