The National List ( Hebrew : רשימה ממלכתית , Reshima Mamlakhtit ), sometimes translated as the State List , was a political party in Israel . Despite being founded by David Ben-Gurion , one of the fathers of the Israeli left, the party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud , Israel's largest right-wing bloc.
6-597: The National List had been formed by Ben-Gurion prior to the 1969 elections after his former party, Rafi , had merged into the Alignment against his wishes. The new party won four seats in the seventh Knesset, and Ben Gurion was joined in the Knesset by Meir Avizohar , Isser Harel and Yigal Hurvitz . During the session Avizohar defected to the Alignment, leaving the party with three seats. Ben-Gurion resigned from
12-651: The Knesset in 1970, and was replaced by Zalman Shoval . Without Ben Gurion's leadership, the party began to disintegrate. Before the 1973 elections it joined the Likud alliance formed by Herut , the Liberal Party (which had formerly been allied as Gahal ), Free Centre and the Movement for Greater Israel . The new alliance won 39 seats, with Hurvitz and Shoval being elected to the Knesset on its list. In 1976
18-827: The National List merged with the Movement for Greater Israel and the Independent Centre (a breakaway from the Free Centre) to form the La'am faction within Likud, and ceased to exist as an independent entity. The party was briefly reformed during the ninth Knesset after Hurvitz, Shoval and Yitzhak Peretz had left Likud to create Rafi – National List on 26 January 1981. On 19 May Shoval and Hurvitz left to establish Telem with Moshe Dayan , whilst Peretz renamed
24-493: The party Rafi, before rejoining Likud on 27 May. Peretz then broke away from the other two to recreate the National List. However, the reconstituted party only lasted for 12 days as Peretz rejoined Likud. In 1983 Hurvitz broke away from Telem to establish Rafi – National List, which he later renamed Ometz . 1969 Israeli legislative election Legislative elections were held in Israel on 28 October 1969 to elect members of
30-461: The seventh Knesset . The ruling Alignment coalition was returned to power with the largest number of seats ever won in an Israeli election (56 out of 120). This was attributed to the government's popularity following the country's victory in the Six-Day War , and that the Alignment had been formed by an alliance of the four most popular left-wing parties, who between them had received 51.2% of
36-629: The vote in the previous elections in 1965. As a result, Golda Meir remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 81.7%. The table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 6th Knesset . Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the fifteenth government , a national unity government including Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. There were 24 ministers. Gahal resigned from
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