Yiud was a small, short-lived political faction 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 mid-1990s.

Background

The faction was formed on 7 February 1994 during the 13th Knesset

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...

 when three MKs, Alex Goldfarb, Esther Salmovitz

Esther Salmovitz

Esther Salmovitz is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 1996.-Biography:Born in Romania in 1948, Salomvitz made aliyah to Israel in 1950. After high school she studied real estate law, and took Open University course in history of the...

 and Gonen Segev

Gonen Segev

Gonen Segev in Kiryat Motzkin is a former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister and pediatrician who was convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud....

 broke away from Tzomet

Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right-wing political party in Israel.-Ideology:The party was the one who first brought the "peace for peace" slogan, which today is used by all Israeli right wing parties and movements...

, following a disagreement with the party's leader, Rafael Eitan

Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member government minister...

. They joined Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin

' was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....

's government, and Segev was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, whilst Goldfarb was made Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction.

On 27 November 1995, Goldfarb and Salmovitz later broke away to form Atid

Atid (political party)

Atid was a short-lived political faction in Israel in the mid-1990s. It is not related to the modern Atid Ehad party.-Background:The faction was established on 27 November 1995 during the 13th Knesset as a breakaway from Yiud, itself a breakaway from Tzomet following disagreements between party...

, leaving Segev as the faction's only member. Yiud did not compete in the 1996 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the...

and subsequently disappeared.

External links

• Yiud Knesset website