Yisrael BaAliyah

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Yisrael BaAliyah
ישראל בעליה‎
Most MKs7 (1996)
Fewest MKs2 (2003)
Election symbol
כן‎
Website
aliya.org.il

Yisrael BaAliyah (

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
. Initially a centrist party, it drifted to the right towards the end of its existence.

History

Natan Sharansky
Yuli Edelstein

The party was formed in 1996 by Sharansky, whose personal image as a dedicated and long-suffering idealist was intended to be the catalyst for an immigrant revolution in Israeli politics. "Yisrael BaAliyah" was chosen as the name for the party, both denoting its identification with immigration (aliyah being the Hebrew word for immigration to Israel), as well as the literal meaning of "Israel on the up".[1]

With another ex-Soviet dissident

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
as a co-founder, they chose a slogan stating that their political party is different: its leaders first go to prison and only then go into politics.

In its first electoral test, the

Minister of Immigrant Absorption.[2]

On 23 February 1999, Shortly before the

Aliyah,[3] which later entered into an alliance with another Russian-immigrant party, Yisrael Beiteinu
.

In the elections, the party was reduced to six seats, but was now the fifth-largest in the Knesset, having campaigned on the popular motto "

Minister of Internal Affairs) and one deputy ministerial post (Marina Solodkin as Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption).[5] On 20 July 1999, shortly after the elections, left-wingers Roman Bronfman and Alexander Tzinker left the party and formed the Democratic Choice faction.[3] Yisrael BaAliyah left the government on 11 July 2000, in response to suggestions that Barak's negiotations with the Palestinians would result in a division of Jerusalem
.

After

Deputy Prime Minister.[6]

In the January 2003 elections, the party was reduced to just two seats. Sharansky resigned from the Knesset, and was replaced by Edelstein. However, he remained party chairman, and decided to merge it into Likud (which had won the election with a haul of 38 seats). The merger went through on 10 March 2003,[3] and Sharansky was appointed Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, whilst Solodkin was re-appointed Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption.

Election results

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Government
1996
 Natan Sharansky 174,994 5.73 (#6)
7 / 120
 New Coalition
1999
 171,705 5.19 (#5)
6 / 120
 Decrease 1 Coalition
2003 67,719 2.15 (#12)
2 / 120
 Decrease 4 Opposition

Knesset members

Knesset Seats MKs Notes
14th
 7
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Michael Nudelman, Natan Sharansky, Yuri Stern, Marina Solodkin, Zvi Weinberg
 Nudelman and Stern left the party to form
Aliyah
15th
 6 Roman Bronfman, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Gennady Riger, Natan Sharansky, Marina Solodkin, Alexander Tzinker Bronfman and Tzinker left the party to form the Democratic Choice
16th 2 Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Natan Sharansky (replaced by Marina Solodkin) Party merged into Likud shortly after the elections.

References

  1. ^ Avi Shlaim (2015) The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Penguin UK
  2. ^ Fourteenth Knesset: Government 27 Knesset website
  3. ^ a b c Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website
  4. ISBN 9781135279936
    .
  5. ^ Fifteenth Knesset: Government 28 Knesset website
  6. ^ Fifteenth Knesset: Government 29 Knesset website

External links

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