The New Liberal Party was a political party in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 in the early 1990s.

Background

The party was formed on 15 March 1990 during the twelfth Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November 1988. Voter turnout was 79.7%.-Results:1 Five members of the Likud left to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea; after two returned, the party was renamed the New Liberal Party...

 by five MKs who had broken away from Likud

Likud

Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...

. Originally known as the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea, all five MKs were former members of the original Liberal Party

Liberal Party (Israel)

The Israeli Liberal Party was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud.-History:The Liberal Party was formed on 8 May 1961, towards the end of the fourth Knesset, by a merger of the General Zionists and the Progressive Party, with the new party having 14...

, which had merged into Likud in 1988.

Despite breaking away from his party, the new faction joined Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...

's government, with Yitzhak Moda'i

Yitzhak Moda'i

Yitzhak Moda'i was an Israeli politician, who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career.-Biography:...

 appointed Minister of Finance. On 18 June 1990 Avraham Sharir

Avraham Sharir

-Biography:Sharir was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv, where he attended high school. He studied law at the Hebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset...

 returned to Likud, as did Yosef Goldberg

Yosef Goldberg

Yosef Goldberg was an Israeli farmer and politician who served as mayor of Metula from 1978 until 1998, and as a member of the Knesset for Likud and the New Liberal Party between 1988 and 1992.-Biography:...

 on 4 December that year.

In March 1992, shortly before the elections that year

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

, the party renamed itself the New Liberal Party. However, it won only 0.6% of the vote, failing to cross the electoral threshold

Election threshold

In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to obtain any seats in the parliament...

 and subsequently disappeared.

Knesset Members

Knesset (MKs)

Knesset Members

(5)

Pinhas Goldstein, Pesah Grupper Pesah Grupper Pesah Grupper is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between October 1983 and September 1984.-Biography:Grupper was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era... , Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i was an Israeli politician, who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career.-Biography:...   Yosef Goldberg Yosef Goldberg Yosef Goldberg was an Israeli farmer and politician who served as mayor of Metula from 1978 until 1998, and as a member of the Knesset for Likud and the New Liberal Party between 1988 and 1992.-Biography:...   (returned to Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had... ), Avraham Sharir Avraham Sharir -Biography:Sharir was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv, where he attended high school. He studied law at the Hebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset... (returned to Likud)

External links

• New Liberal Party Knesset website
• Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea Knesset website