Yamin Yisrael

Yamin Yisrael (Hebrew: ימין ישראל‎, lit. Right Israel) was a minor right-wing political party in Israel.

Yamin Yisrael

ימין ישראל‎
LeaderShaul Gutman
Miriam Lapid
Eleonora Shifrin
Founded24 July 1995
Split fromMoledet
Political positionRight-wing
Most MKs1 (1995–96)
Election symbol
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Background

The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet.[1] It ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.

In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%) and again failing to cross the threshold.

The party did not run in the 2009 elections.

Ideology

The party's objectives were to:[2]

  • Replace the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
  • Institute a presidential system of government.
  • Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
  • Enforce the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
  • Rescind citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
  • Rescind large child allowances.
  • Rescind the "grandfather clause" of the Law of Return (which allows individuals with a Jewish grandparent, but not recognised halakhically as Jews to claim Israeli citizenship).
  • Allow Israelis living abroad to vote.
  • Castigate CNN and the BBC for being "a facade for antisemitism".
  • Phase out U.S. military aid to Israel.

References
  1. "Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups". Knesset. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. Jewish and Democratic Solution to the Arab Problem Paul Eidelberg, 17 April 2002
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