Tehiya

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Tehiya (Hebrew for "revival", תחיה), was a small right-wing Israeli political party which split from the Likud in response to the 1978 Camp David Treaty between Egypt and Israel, particularly to the surrender of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt, and the eviction of its Israeli residents. In the eyes of many Tehiya was identified with the personality of Geula Cohen who founded and headed it throughout its existence, until 1992.

Tehiya was strongly affiliated with the extra-parliamentary movement of Gush Emunim, and included prominent members of the Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza such as Hanan Porat (later to be a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and the National Union) and Elyakim Haetzni. Another founder and prominent member was the physicist Yuval Ne'eman who served in various science-related ministerial positions for the Tehiya.

Tehiya maintained 3-5 MKs during three Knesset seats, from 1981-1992, and vanished without a trace in 1992. Most likely its electorate went to Tzomet, who competed with Tehiya on the same secular right-wing electorate (though had a much more pronounced secular, even anti-religious stand) and rose meteorically in these elections from 2 MKs in 1988 to 8 MKs in 1992. None of Tehiya's MKs at the time served in the Knesset again.