Aliyah (political party)
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Aliyah (Hebrew: עלי"ה, lit. Immigration but also an acronym for Amnu LiMa'an Yisrael HaMithadeshet (Hebrew: עמנו למען ישראל המתחדשת, lit. We People For a Renewed Israel)) was a Russian immigrant-dominated political party in Israel during the late 1990s.
[edit] Background
The party was formed in 1998 during the 14th Knesset when MKs Michael Nudelman and Yuri Stern, both immigrants from Russia, broke away from Natan Sharansky's Yisrael BaAliyah. Splits had appeared when the party decided to vote against an amendment to the Religious Services Law which blocked Reform and Conservative Jews from Religious Councils, but Nudelman and Stern did not turn up to vote.
After the split, Nudelman initially suggested the party be named Shiluv (Hebrew: שילוב, lit. Integration), but instead Aliyah was chosen. For the 1999 elections the party ran as part of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu list, with both Nudelman and Stern retaining their seats.
Aliyah was still in existence as a faction within Yisrael Beiteinu in 2005.[1] Stern remained an MK for the party until his death in 2007, whilst Nudelman defected to Kadima during the 16th Knesset after a spell sitting as an independent. In 2005 Nudelman had filed a lawsuit against Yisrael Beiteinu for using five million shekels of funds belonging to Aliyah for municipal election campaigns.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b How do you say `the next prime minister' in Russian? Haaretz, 6 September 2005
[edit] External links
- Party history Knesset website
