Yamin Israel
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Yamin Israel (Hebrew: ימין ישראל, lit. Right Israel) is a minor right-wing political party in Israel. Founded in the mid 1990s, it is today led by by Paul Eidelberg, Eleonora Shifrin and Israel Hanakuglu.
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[edit] Background
The party was founded during the term of the 13th Knesset in the mid 1990s when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet, another right-wing party.
The party ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.
In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%), again failing to cross the threshold.
[edit] Ideology
Yamin Israel believes in;[1]
- Replacing the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
- Instituting a presidential system of government.
- Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
- Enforcing the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
- Rescinding citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
- Rescinding large child allowances.
- Rescinding the grandfather clause of the Law of Return (which allows people with Jewish grandparents to claim Israeli citizenship).
- Allowing Israelis living abroad to vote.
- Castigating CNN and the BBC for being "a façade for Jew-hatred".
- Phasing out US military aid to Israel
[edit] References
- ^ A Jewish and Democratic Solution Paul Eidelberg, 18 December 2002
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Party history Knesset website (English)
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