Tzomet
Sign in to saveTzomet (, lit., Crossroads) is a small, right-wing political party in Israel.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Tzomet
- Political party.country
- Israel
- Political party.logo
- Tzomet.svg
- Political party.leader
- Moshe Gerin
- Political party.foundation
- 1984
- Political party.ideology
- ZionismAgrarianismNationalismEconomic liberalismSecularism
- Political party.position
- Right-wing
- Political party.split
- Tehiya
- Political party.seats1_title
- Most MKs
- Political party.seats1
- 8 (1992)
- Political party.seats2_title
- Knesset
- Political party.colours
- Blue Red
- Political party.symbol
- (1988–1999, 2009) (2003) (2006) (2019–)
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Key dates
- Inception
- 1984
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- Israel
- Founded by
- Raphael Eitan
- Official website
- tsomet.co.il
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- P1142
- right-wing populism
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- far-right politics
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Raful period (1983-1999)
- Moshe Gerin period (1999-2009); then dormant
- New start: Oren Hazan (2019 elections)
- Oren Hazan, 2nd period (2019-)
- Ideology
- Under Rafael Eitan (1983-1999)
- Under Oren Hazan (2019 elections)
- Under Moshe Gerin (2019-)
- Leaders
- Election results
- Knesset members
- References
- External links
Tzomet (, lit., Crossroads) is a small, right-wing political party in Israel.
==Raful period (1983-1999)== The party was founded by General Rafael Eitan in 1983, after his retirement from the position of chief-of-staff in 1982. He headed it throughout its existence, and modeled it in his spirit as a secular, right-wing party with a strong agricultural side. Many of Tzomet's members and MKs were neighbors of Eitan in Tel Adashim (a small moshav). Tzomet ran for the 1984 elections in a joint list with the Tehiya party, and Eitan was its only member of the Knesset. Tzomet and the Tehiya parted way in 1987, and Tzomet ran independently in the 1988 elections, winning two seats. The party joined Yitzhak Shamir's government in 1990, and Eitan was appointed Minister of Agriculture. However, the party left the coalition in December 1991 in protest at Shamir's participation in the Madrid Conference.