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13-397: The party was created on 29 March 1967 during the sixth Knesset when Shmuel Tamir led a breakaway of three Herut members (the other two being Eliezer Shostak and Avraham Tiar ) after a leadership dispute with Menachem Begin . Before the next election they were joined by Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon who had also left Gahal and failed in an attempt to create a one-man parliamentary group named

26-742: A majority in the Knesset. Other affiliation changes during the Knesset term included Yizhar Harari leaving the Independent Liberals to join the Alignment, four MKs breaking away from Gahal to establish the Free Centre and Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood merging to form Cooperation and Development (which then broke up into the two original parties, the Druze Party and Jewish-Arab Brotherhood , each with

39-538: A single seat). List of Knesset speakers The speaker of the Knesset ( Hebrew : יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁ הכנסת , romanized :  Yoshev Rosh HaKnesset , Arabic : رئيس الكنيست , romanized :  Ra'īs Al-Kinisit , lit.   'Chairman of the Knesset';) is the presiding officer of the Knesset , the unicameral legislature of Israel . The Speaker also acts as President of Israel when

52-769: The Alignment , whilst Herut and the Liberal Party had formed the Gahal alliance towards the end of the previous Knesset session . However, both Mapai and the Liberal Party had been hit by breakaway factions, the Ben-Gurion led Rafi and the Independent Liberals (largely composed of former Progressive Party members) respectively. The communist Maki had also experienced a split earlier in

65-738: The Popular Faction . In the 1969 elections the Free Centre only just passed the electoral threshold of 1%, claiming 1.2% of the vote and 2 seats, which were taken by Tamir and Shostak. Before the 1973 elections it joined the Likud alliance formed by Herut , the Liberal Party (which had formerly been allied as Gahal ), the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel . The new alliance won 39 seats, with four taken by

78-539: The Free Centre; Tamir and Shostak were joined by Ehud Olmert and Akiva Nof . In 1974, internal conflict led to Shostak and Ehud Olmert leaving the Free Centre to establish the Independent Centre , which later merged into the La'am faction. Another dispute led to Tamir and Nof leaving Likud and re-establishing the party as an independent faction on 26 October 1976 during the eighth Knesset . Both resigned from

91-549: The Knesset and representing the Knesset. They are also charged with preserving the dignity of the Knesset, the decorum of its sittings and observance of Knesset rules of procedure. The Speaker is assisted by a number of Deputy Speakers. Together, the Speaker and Deputy Speakers constitute the Presidium of the Knesset. The Presidium sets the Knesset agenda. Ahdut HaAvoda 's Nahum Nir and Blue & White 's Benny Gantz are

104-645: The Knesset on 25 January 1977, and joined the Democratic Movement for Change . They were both elected to the ninth Knesset as members of the new party, though Nof later defected back to Likud after a spell in Ahva . 1965 Israeli legislative election Elections for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 2 November 1965. Voter turnout was 85.9%. Prior to the elections, two major alliances were formed; Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda united to form

117-604: The National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. In 1968 Rafi, Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda merged into the Labor Party in 1968, although David Ben-Gurion (Rafi) became an independent. In 1969 the Labor Party formed an alliance with Mapam also named the Alignment. The new Alignment held 63 seats, the only time a single faction has ever held

130-462: The President is incapacitated. The current speaker is Amir Ohana , who was elected on 29 December 2022. The Speaker and their deputies are elected by members of the Knesset. Until a Speaker is elected, the oldest Knesset member who is not the prime minister, the prime minister-elect, a minister or deputy minister, serves as acting speaker. The Speaker is responsible for conducting the affairs of

143-559: The end of August, 1966 the new Knesset at Givat Ram in Jerusalem was opened. When the Six-Day War broke out on 5 June 1967, Gahal and Rafi joined the coalition to form a national unity government with 21 ministers. The government was ended by Eshkol's death on 26 February 1969. Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the fourteenth government , also a national unity government, on 17 March 1969. The coalition partners were Gahal,

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156-447: The parliamentary factions represented in the 6th Knesset . The sixth Knesset started with Levi Eshkol 's Alignment forming the thirteenth government on 12 January 1966. His coalition included the National Religious Party, Mapam, the Independent Liberals, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood, and had eighteen ministers. Kadish Luz of the Alignment retained his position as Knesset Speaker . At

169-588: The year, with most of its Arab members and some Jewish members breaking away to establish Rakah . A new Mapai -affiliated Arab party, Cooperation and Brotherhood was formed to contest the election, whilst the Arab Socialist List was prevented from running by the Central Elections Committee due to its links with the banned al-Ard organisation. Peace activist Abie Nathan entered a party list, Nes. The table below lists

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