Tehiya

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Tehiya
תחיה
Most MKs5 (1984)
Election symbol
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Tehiya (

Geula Cohen
, who founded the party and headed it throughout its existence.

Background

Tehiya-Tzomet Alliance Logo, 1984

The party was formed in 1979 during the term of the

Sinai peninsula to Egypt, and the eviction of its Israeli settlers.[6]

Tehiya was strongly affiliated with the extra-parliamentary movement of

In its first electoral test, the

Telem. Although Cohen did not take a ministerial position, Neeman became Minister of Science and Development.[7]

In the 1984 elections, Tehiya became the third largest party in the Knesset after the Alignment and Likud, albeit with only five seats. However, they refused to participate in the national unity government of Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, which included the Alignment, Likud, the National Religious Party, Agudat Israel, Shas, Morasha, Shinui and Ometz.[8] During the Knesset session Rafael Eitan defected from Tehiya to found a new party, Tzomet.[9]

The party was reduced to three seats in the 1988 legislative election, and was again excluded from Shamir's national unity government. However, when the Alignment left the coalition in 1990, Tehiya were invited into a new narrow right-wing government which included Likud, the National Religious Party, Shas, Agudat Israel, Degel HaTorah, the New Liberal Party.[10] Although Cohen again declined a ministerial position, Neeman was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Minister of Science and Technology. Despite its late entry to the government, the party pulled out of the coalition on 21 January 1992 in protest over Yitzhak Shamir's participation in the Madrid conference, which forced the government to hold new elections.[11]

In the

electoral threshold, and subsequently disappeared, with Cohen joining Likud that year. It is likely that most of its electorate went to Eitan's Tzomet, who jumped from two seats in the 1988 elections to eight in the 1992 votes. The two parties had competed on the same secular right-wing electorate.[10]

Tehiya fronted a number of controversial positions in its time, some of which were adopted by the mainstream; most notably, the Jerusalem Law, which was proposed by the party and enacted on 30 July 1980 establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.[12]

Structure

The structure of Tehiya was based on a military model due to Gideon Altshuler, former head of an IDF brigade being made Secretary General, and Shmuel Gordan a former Lieutenant Colonel being made head of organization.[13] The party only allowed Jewish members.[7]

Knesset members

Knesset
(MKs)
Knesset members
9th
(2)
Geula Cohen, Moshe Shamir
10th
(3)
Geula Cohen,
Yuval Neeman, Hanan Porat (replaced by Zvi Shiloah
)
11th
(5 −1)
Geula Cohen, Yuval Neeman, Gershon Shafat, Eliezer Waldman
Rafael Eitan (to Tzomet)
12th
(3)
Geula Cohen, Yuval Neeman (replaced by Elyakim Haetzni), Eliezer Waldman (replaced by Gershon Shafat)

Election platform

The Tehiya platform at the 1988 elections included:[14]

  • Jewish sovereignty over the Sinai, the West Bank and Gaza
  • Increase of the number of Jews living in all quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem
  • Strengthening of the IDF, including technical development and severe punishment for refusal to serve
  • Support and increase for the settlements of the West Bank and Gaza, including establishment of a special police force
  • Clemency for Jews convicted of crimes committed due to "security distress"
  • Peace agreements only with Arab states who acquiesce to Jewish control over the entirety of the Land of Israel
  • Jordan being the Palestinian State, all attempts to create a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River are to be prevented
  • Cancellation of the access of Palestinians to the
    High Court of Justice
  • Death penalty for severe cases of violence by Palestinians
  • Licence for Israeli soldiers to shoot stone throwers
  • Punishments of Palestinians to include collective punishments
  • Wide access roads through the casbahs of Palestinian cities

Notes

  1. ^ ברית נאמני ארץ ישראל, Brit Na'amnei Eretz Yisrael

References

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  2. ^ Pedahzur, Ami (2012). The Triumph of Israel's Radical Right. Oxford University Press. p. 101.
  3. ^ Atkins, Stephen E. (2004). Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups. Greenwood Press. p. 316.
  4. ^ "Tehiya Threatens to Quit Coalition Unless Government Moves on Intifada". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 9 August 1990.
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