United Religious Front

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United Religious Front
חזית דתית מאוחדת‎
Founded1949
Dissolved1951 (nationally)
IdeologyUltra-Orthodox interest
Alliance ofAgudat Yisrael, Hapoel HaMizrachi, Mizrachi, Poalei Agudat Yisrael and the Union of Religious Independents
Most MKs16 (1949–1951)
Fewest MKs16 (1949–1951)
Election symbol
ב‎
בגד‎ (1978 Tel Aviv council election)[1]
שגב‎ (1989 Tel Aviv council election)[2]

The United Religious Front (

1949 elections
.

History

The idea of a united religious front had been discussed a decade prior between

party lists because "the woman's place is in the home."[8]
It also included the Union of Religious Independents.

The alliance contested the

separation of religion and state, but the URF decided to initially compromise in order to join the cabinet, in hopes of being "able to fight, through the political institutions of the Jewish State, for the full domination of traditional law in all of Israel, as a maximum objective."[11]

However, the grouping created problems in the governing coalition due to its differing attitudes. Among the many

Minister of Immigration in the cabinet, attempted to declare that non-Jews must first convert before settling. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion objected and insisted that "If the family goes to the Land of Israel, they will be in a Jewish environment, and the children will be Jewish children, and I don't care if the father or mother is in origin of a different race." Ben-Gurion was backed by other ministers such as Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit. Nonetheless, following compromise between the two camps, the Knesset passed a relatively ambiguous aliyah law on 5 July 1950 which satisfied the religious side of the dispute.[12]

On 13 June 1950, the URF abstained from the 50–30 Knesset vote to indefinitely postpone the adoption of a constitution, due in great part to the fact that the ultra-Orthodox factions condemned the idea of a constitution that was not based on the Torah and Talmud.[13] The URF had differing attitudes towards education in the new immigrant camps and the religious education system. It also demanded that Ben-Gurion close the Rationing and Supply Ministry and appoint a businessman as Minister for Trade and Industry. As a result, Ben-Gurion resigned on 15 October 1950. After the differences were resolved, Ben Gurion formed the second government on 1 November 1950, with the United Religious Front retaining their place in the coalition.

In 1951, MP

Holocaust Remembrance Day.[14]

After

conscription of religious females to the Israel Defense Forces, with the other three parties of the former URF remaining in the fourth Ben-Gurion cabinet.[17]

However, the United Religious Front was retained at the local level, and contested the local elections in Tel Aviv as late as 2003.

Composition

Name Ideology Leader Beginning of the First Knesset End of the First Knesset
Hapoel HaMizrachi Religious Zionism
Religious workers interest 		Haim-Moshe Shapira
7 / 120
6 / 120
Mizrachi Religious Zionism Yehuda Leib Maimon
4 / 120
4 / 120
Poalei Agudat Yisrael Haredi workers interests Kalman Kahana
3 / 120
3 / 120
Agudat Yisrael Torah Judaism
Haredi Judaism 		Yitzhak-Meir Levin
2 / 120
3 / 120
Union of Religious Independents Haredi Judaism Mordechai Shmuel Carol
0 / 120
0 / 120

Knesset members

Knesset
(MKs) 		Knesset Members
1
(1949–1951)
(16)

References

  1. ^ "רשומות ילקוט הפרסומים" (PDF). www.nevo.co.il. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ^ "רשומות ילקוט הפרסומים" (PDF). www.nevo.co.il. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. JSTOR 25834471
    .
  4. JSTOR 4282994
    .
  5. ^
    S2CID 143910569
    .
  6. ^
    JSTOR 30245767
    .
  7. ^
    JSTOR 4323495
    .
  8. JSTOR 4467082
    .
  9. JSTOR 4325020
    .
  10. JSTOR 4323198
    .
  11. JSTOR 23913703
    .
  12. JSTOR 43771843
    .
  13. JSTOR 4465526
    .
  14. JSTOR 4283872
    .
  15. JSTOR 23261690
    .
  16. S2CID 145281269
    .
  17. JSTOR 10.5703/shofar.31.2.31
    .

External links
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