Tafnit

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Tafnit
Leader	Uzi Dayan
Ideology	anti-corruption, centrist
Website www.tafnit.org

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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 2006 elections, 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 would run in the election to the Knesset and would place in the top of its platform the struggle against the "public corruption".

The party is turning to the voters who identify themselves 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.

These are the top 14 (out of 24) candidates of the Tafnit list who ran 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

12. Eliyahu Yaish

13. Jamber Kavada

14. Tsvi Gavrilov

The party did not pass the required threshold of popular vote and did not enter the 17th Knesset.

[edit] External links

• Official website