Herut
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Herut MKs Uri Zvi Greenberg, [[Esther Raziel Naor, and Menachem Begin, at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem]] Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Herut
- Political party.logo
- Herut.svg
- Political party.logo_size
- 90px
- Political party.merged
- Likud
- Political party.headquarters
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Political party.newspaper
- Herut
- Political party.position
- Right-wing to far-right
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- Most MKs
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- 28 (1981, 1984)
- Political party.country
- Israel
- Political party.symbol
- 30px
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Early years
- Foundation and platform
- 1949 elections
- Opposition to Herut
- Decline
- Begin's return
- Gahal alliance
- Government participation
- Merging into Likud
- Knesset election results
- Legacy
- References
- External links
thumb|250px|Herut MKs Uri Zvi Greenberg, [[Esther Raziel Naor, and Menachem Begin, at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem]] Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.
==Early years== ===Foundation and platform=== Herut was founded by Menachem Begin on 15 June 1948 as a successor to the Revisionist Irgun, a militant group in Mandate Palestine. The new party was a challenge to the Hatzohar party established by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Herut also established an eponymous newspaper, with many of its founding journalists defecting from Hatzohar's HaMashkif.
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