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11-548: The party was formed on 22 October 1968, during the sixth Knesset , when Elias Nakhleh broke away from Progress and Development . For the 1969 elections , Nakhleh merged the party into Cooperation and Brotherhood , effectively swapping parties with Jabr Muadi , who had begun the session as a member of Cooperation and Brotherhood, then left to set up the Israeli Druze Faction , before joining Progress and Development. This article about an Israeli political party

22-603: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1965 Israeli legislative election Elections for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 2 November 1965. Voter turnout was 85.9%. Prior to the elections, two major alliances were formed; Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda united to form the Alignment , whilst Herut and the Liberal Party had formed the Gahal alliance towards

33-515: The Free Centre and Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood merging to form Cooperation and Development (which then broke up into the two original parties, the Druze Party and Jewish-Arab Brotherhood , each with a single seat). Free Centre The Free Centre ( Hebrew : המרכז החופשי , HaMerkaz HaHofshi ) was a political party in Israel . It is one of the forerunners of

44-719: The Labor Party in 1968, although David Ben-Gurion (Rafi) became an independent. In 1969 the Labor Party formed an alliance with Mapam also named the Alignment. The new Alignment held 63 seats, the only time a single faction has ever held a majority in the Knesset. Other affiliation changes during the Knesset term included Yizhar Harari leaving the Independent Liberals to join the Alignment, four MKs breaking away from Gahal to establish

55-709: The Popular Faction . In the 1969 elections the Free Centre only just passed the electoral threshold of 1%, claiming 1.2% of the vote and 2 seats, which were taken by Tamir and Shostak. Before the 1973 elections it joined the Likud alliance formed by Herut , the Liberal Party (which had formerly been allied as Gahal ), the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel . The new alliance won 39 seats, with four taken by

66-528: The Free Centre; Tamir and Shostak were joined by Ehud Olmert and Akiva Nof . In 1974, internal conflict led to Shostak and Ehud Olmert leaving the Free Centre to establish the Independent Centre , which later merged into the La'am faction. Another dispute led to Tamir and Nof leaving Likud and re-establishing the party as an independent faction on 26 October 1976 during the eighth Knesset . Both resigned from

77-574: The National Religious Party, Mapam, the Independent Liberals, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood, and had eighteen ministers. Kadish Luz of the Alignment retained his position as Knesset Speaker . At the end of August, 1966 the new Knesset at Givat Ram in Jerusalem was opened. When the Six-Day War broke out on 5 June 1967, Gahal and Rafi joined

88-455: The coalition to form a national unity government with 21 ministers. The government was ended by Eshkol's death on 26 February 1969. Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the fourteenth government , also a national unity government, on 17 March 1969. The coalition partners were Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. In 1968 Rafi, Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda merged into

99-652: The end of the previous Knesset session . However, both Mapai and the Liberal Party had been hit by breakaway factions, the Ben-Gurion led Rafi and the Independent Liberals (largely composed of former Progressive Party members) respectively. The communist Maki had also experienced a split earlier in the year, with most of its Arab members and some Jewish members breaking away to establish Rakah . A new Mapai -affiliated Arab party, Cooperation and Brotherhood

110-424: The modern-day Likud . The party was created on 29 March 1967 during the sixth Knesset when Shmuel Tamir led a breakaway of three Herut members (the other two being Eliezer Shostak and Avraham Tiar ) after a leadership dispute with Menachem Begin . Before the next election they were joined by Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon who had also left Gahal and failed in an attempt to create a one-man parliamentary group named

121-596: Was formed to contest the election, whilst the Arab Socialist List was prevented from running by the Central Elections Committee due to its links with the banned al-Ard organisation. Peace activist Abie Nathan entered a party list, Nes. The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 6th Knesset . The sixth Knesset started with Levi Eshkol 's Alignment forming the thirteenth government on 12 January 1966. His coalition included

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