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Movement for Greater Israel


FieldValue
nameMovement for Greater Israel
native_name
leaderAvraham Yoffe
foundedJuly 1967
dissolved1976
mergedLa'am
ideologyGreater Israel
Neo-Zionism
Anti-Arabism
Ethnocracy
Jewish supremacy
affiliation1_titleAlliance
affiliation1Likud (1973–1976)
colorcode#2E2D6F
seats1_titleMost MKs
seats11 (1973–1976)
seats2_titleFewest MKs
seats20 (1969–1973)
symbol
countryIsrael

Neo-Zionism Anti-Arabism Ethnocracy Jewish supremacy

The Movement for Greater Israel (, HaTnu'a Lema'an Eretz Yisrael HaSheleima), also known as the Land of Israel Movement, was a political organisation in Israel during the 1960s and 1970s which subscribed to an ideology of Greater Israel.

The organisation was formed in July 1967, a month after Israel captured the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War. It called on the Israeli government to keep the captured areas and to settle them with Jewish populations. Its founders were a mixture of Labor Zionists, Revisionists, writers and poets, including Nathan Alterman, Aharon Amir, Haim Gouri, Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Yitzhak Zuckerman, Zivia Lubetkin, Eliezer Livneh, Moshe Shamir, Shmuel Katz, Zev Vilnay, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isser Harel, Israel Eldad, Dan Tolkovsky and Avraham Yoffe.

In the 1969 Knesset elections it ran as the "List for the Land of Israel", but earned only 7,561 votes (0.6%), and failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1%. Prior to the 1973 elections, it joined the Likud, an alliance of Herut, the Liberal Party, the Free Centre and the National List. Likud won 39 seats, of which one was allocated to the Movement for Greater Israel, and taken by Avraham Yoffe.

In 1976 it merged with the National List and the Independent Centre (a breakaway from the Free Centre) to form La'am, which remained a faction within Likud until its merger into Herut in 1984. Two of its members, Moshe Shamir and Zvi Shiloah, later became Knesset members for Likud and Tehiya.

References

References

  1. [http://rs6.loc.gov/frd/cs/israel/il_appnb.html Appendix B -- Israel: Political Parties and Organizations] Library of Congress
  2. [https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=656 Moshe Shamir] Knesset website
  3. [https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=648 Zbi Shiloah] Knesset website
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