Tafnit

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Tafnit




Leader	Uzi Dayan

Founded
Headquarters

Political ideology	anti-corruption, centrist
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Website	[1]

Tafnit (Hebrew: תפנית "Turnaround") is a political party and a social movement which was established by the Aluf in reserve Uzi Dayan. The party participated in the Elections for the 17th Knesset that was held on March 28, 2006 although did not gain any seats.

Tafnit was established as a social movement. Among the rest, the movement was involved in the design and the wording of the Gabizon-Meydan document and in the establishing of Sderot convention to society.

In December 25, 2005 Dayan announced that the movement will run in the election to the Knesset and will place in the top of her platform the struggle against the "public corruption".

The party is turning to the voters who identify theirselves in the center of the political map. Likewise, the party is make run the "Dayan plan", a plan which offers to complete quickly as possible the building of the West Bank barrier and to implement a unilateral action which in its center an evacuation of isolated settlements in Samaria, and creation of a border on demographic basis; the plan supposed to be kind of a second stage of the disengagement plan, that Dayan is among her creators.

Those are the top 14 (out of 24) candidates of the Tafnit list running for the 17th Knesset:

1. Uzi Dayan

2. Ester (Etti) Peretz

3. Yehudah Gilad

4. Leonid Braustein

5. Aryeh Algerbali

6. Aryeh Shomer

7. Adi Barshadsky

8. Rimon Jubran

9. Aleksander Ron

10. Yitskhak Odri

11. Irina Olvinsky