Ale Yarok
Ale Yarok עלה ירוק | |
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Boaz Wachtel | |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | Jerusalem |
Ideology | Cannabis legalization Green liberalism Freedom of information Harm reduction[2] |
Slogan | "(I'm) Proud of My Choice"[3] |
Most MKs | 0 |
Current MKs | 0 |
Election symbol | |
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Party flag | |
Website | |
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Ale Yarok (Hebrew: עָלֶה יָרוֹק, lit. 'Green Leaf'), is a liberal political party in Israel best known for its ideology of legalizing cannabis. To date, it has had no representation in the Knesset. Ale Yarok has not yet met the electoral threshold for inclusion in any of the elections that they have contested.
History
Established in 1999 by Boaz Wachtel, Shlomi Sandak, and Rafik Kimchi, the party gained 1% of the vote in the
Before the
Before the 2009 elections, Shem-Tov was expelled from the party by Shlomi Sandak who was the temporary chairman of the Green Leaf Party. Internal disputes led the party to split with Shem-Tov forming the
For the 2013 elections, it ran with some members of the "New Liberal Movement" (an Israeli libertarian nonpartisan organization, also known as the Israeli Freedom Movement).[8] under the name "Ale Yarok-The Liberal list".[9][10] In these elections the party presented a broad liberal platform.
Oren Lebovitch has been the chairman of the party since December 2014. Lebovitch, the editor-in-chief of the Israeli Cannabis Magazine, lead the party to its highest number of voters on the March 2015 election.
Ideology
The party's current
Election results
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1999
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34,029 | 1.00 | 0 / 120
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2003 | 37,855 | 1.20 | 0 / 120
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2006 | 40,353 | 1.29 | 0 / 120
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2009 | 13,132 | 0.39 | 0 / 120
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2013 | 43,734 | 1.15 | 0 / 120
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2015 | 47,157 | 1.12 | 0 / 120
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Apr 2019 | Did not contest | 0 / 120
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Sept 2019 | 0 / 120
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2020 | 0 / 120
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2021 | 0 / 120
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2022[a] | 1,354 | 0.03 | 0 / 120
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See also
- Cannabis in Israel
- Cannabis: Legal issues
- Drug liberalization
- Drug policy reform
- Marijuana parties
- Politics of Israel
Notes
- ^ Part of the Islamic Family
References
- ^ Schindler, Max (18 January 2018). "Israeli marijuana is growing, but exports have nowhere to go". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ Chemi Shalev (24 January 2003). "Prognosticators Turn to the 'Day After' a Sharon Win". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: מכניסים עלה ירוק לכנסת (Vote Ale Yarok for the Knesset). YouTube (in Hebrew). Ale Yarok. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "1999 Election Results (Final)". Knesset. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ "2003 Election Results". Knesset. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ "2006 Election Results". Knesset. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ "Holocaust survivors team up with marijuana activists in odd coalition". 3 News. 9 February 2009. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ Ryan Jones (14 September 2011). "Israeli libertarians lobby against big government". Israel Today. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Ben Hartman (10 December 2012). "Green Leaf unveils libertarian strain ahead of polls". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Sefi Krupsky (19 March 2015). "Israel's cannabis legalization party and the other slates that didn't make it". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ISBN 9781317969921. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
External links
- Official website (in Hebrew)