Participation and Development
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Participation and Development (Hebrew: שיתוף ופיתוח, Shituf ve-Pituakh) was a short-lived political party in Israel.
[edit] History
Participation and Development was formed during the sixth Knesset when two of the three Israeli Arab parties, Participation and Brotherhood and Progress and Development, merged. Both parties had had two seats, meaning the new union had four, which were taken by Seif-El-Din El-Zubi, Jabr Moade, Elias Nahale and Diyab Ovid.
Both parties had been part of Levi Eshkol's coalition government, as they were associated with the Alignment, and the new party assumed their place as a coalition member.
However, less than six months after the parties merged, they split into their original factions again. Later during the Knesset session both parties split again, as Jabr Moade broke away from Participation and Brotherhood to form the Druze Party, whilst Elias Nahale broke away from Progress and Development to form the Jewish-Arab Brotherhood. However, by the 1969 elections, Moade had joined Progress and Development, whilst Nahale had become a member of Participation and Brotherhood, the two effectively swapping parties.
