Morasha

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Morasha (Hebrew: מורשה‎, Heritage), later known as Morasha-Agudat Israel Workers (Hebrew: מורשה-פועלי אגודת ישראל‎) was a short-lived small religious political party in Israel during the 1980s.

[edit] Background

The party was formed in the run-up to the 1984 elections by former National Religious Party MK Haim Druckman and Avraham Verdiger, a former member of Agudat Israel Workers (which had lost its sole Knesset seat in the 1981 elections). Druckman had attempted to form a Knesset faction by the name of Zionist Religious Camp during the 10th Knesset, but had been refused permission to do so by the House Committee.

The party won two seats, taken by Druckman and Verdiger. The party was included in the national unity government led by the Alignment's Shimon Peres, though it did not receive any ministerial positions. However, when Likud's Yitzhak Shamir took over from Peres in 1986 as per the rotation agreement, Morasha were not included in the new government.

During the Knesset term, Druckman left the party and returned to the National Religious Party. As the sole MK, Verdiger then renamed the party Morasha-Agudat Israel Workers, and the party was merged into Agudat Israel by the 1988 elections.