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Ahdut HaAvoda (lit. Labour Unity) was a political party
List of political parties in Israel

Israel's political system is based on proportional representation which allows for a multi-party system with numerous parties. Although there are three major parties, a single party usually has no chance of gaining power by itself, forcing the parties to cooperate and form coalition governments....
 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party.

original Ahdut HaAvoda party was founded in Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 in 1919 out of the right wing of the Poale Zion
Poale Zion

Poale Zion was a Movement of Marxism Zionism Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the General Jewish Labor Union rejected Zionism in 1901....
 party, which had been founded in Ottoman ruled Palestine in 1906, and was headed by David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
. In 1930 it merged with the avowedly anti-Marxist Hapoel Hatzair
Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair is a Zionist group which was active in Palestine from 1905 until 1930. They were founded by A.D. Gordon, Yosef Ahronowitz, Yosef Sprinzakand followed a non-Marxist, Zionist, socialist agenda....
 to form Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
, and effectively disappeared.






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Ahdut HaAvoda (lit. Labour Unity) was a political party
List of political parties in Israel

Israel's political system is based on proportional representation which allows for a multi-party system with numerous parties. Although there are three major parties, a single party usually has no chance of gaining power by itself, forcing the parties to cooperate and form coalition governments....
 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party.

History

The original Ahdut HaAvoda party was founded in Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 in 1919 out of the right wing of the Poale Zion
Poale Zion

Poale Zion was a Movement of Marxism Zionism Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the General Jewish Labor Union rejected Zionism in 1901....
 party, which had been founded in Ottoman ruled Palestine in 1906, and was headed by David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
. In 1930 it merged with the avowedly anti-Marxist Hapoel Hatzair
Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair is a Zionist group which was active in Palestine from 1905 until 1930. They were founded by A.D. Gordon, Yosef Ahronowitz, Yosef Sprinzakand followed a non-Marxist, Zionist, socialist agenda....
 to form Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
, and effectively disappeared. Ahudat HaAvoda and Hapoel Hatzair had previously co-operated in 1920 to found the Histadrut
Histadrut

The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
.

The party was resurrected in 1944 after a split from Mapai. In 1948 it united with Mapam
Mapam

Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party....
 and fought the 1949
Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections in Israel for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. Voter turnout was 85.8%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February, 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset ....
 and 1951 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....
 as part of the party.

However, during the second Knesset Moshe Aram, Yisrael Bar-Yehuda, Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon

Yitzhak Ben-Aharon was a left-wing Israeli politician. He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Transportation Minister of Israel and General secretary of the Histadrut....
 and Aharon Zisling
Aharon Zisling

Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and minister and a signatory of Declaration of Independence ....
 broke away from Mapam under the name Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion. However, they were not recognised by the speaker of the Knesset
List of Knesset speakers

The Speaker of the Knesset is the presiding officer in the Knesset, Israel's parliament and also fills the role of the President of Israel when he or she is incapacitated....
 as an independent party.

The 1955 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1955

File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....
 were fought as Ahdut HaAvoda and the party managed to win 10 seats, making them the fifth largest in the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
. They formed part of both of Ben-Gurion's governing coalitions during the third Knesset. Party member Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir

Dr Nahum Nir was a Zionism activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence . He is the only List of Knesset speakers to date not to have been a member of the ruling party....
 was appointed Knesset speaker
List of Knesset speakers

The Speaker of the Knesset is the presiding officer in the Knesset, Israel's parliament and also fills the role of the President of Israel when he or she is incapacitated....
 (the only time a speaker has not been a member of the ruling party), Bar-Yehuda was made Minister of Internal Affairs, and Moshe Carmel
Moshe Carmel

Moshe Carmel was an Israeli soldier and politician. He served as Transportation Minister of Israel for eight years....
 became Minister of Transportation
Transportation Minister of Israel

The Transportation Minister of Israel is the Cabinet of Israel at the head of the Transportation Ministry in Israel. A relatively minor post in the Israeli cabinet, it is often given to smaller parties in the governing coalitions....
. However, they party were ultimately responsible for bringing down the government in 1959 when they and fellow coalition partners Mapam
Mapam

Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party....
 voted against the government on the issue of selling arms to West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
 and refused to leave the coalition.

In the 1959 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....
 the party was reduced to seven seats. They again joined the coalition government until its collapse in 1961, with Ben-Aharon becoming Minister of Transportation. The 1961 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1961

Elections in Israel for the fifth Knesset were held in Israel on 15 August 1961. Voter turnout was 79.0%....
 saw them gain one seat, and become part of all three coalition governments of the fifth Knesset with Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon

Yigal Allon was an Israeli politician, a commander of the Palmach, and a general in the Israel Defense Forces. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda and the Labor Party ), acting Prime Minister of Israel, as well as being a member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets....
 becoming Minister of Labour and Ben-Aharon, Bar-Yehuda and Carmel all acting as Minister of Transportation during the session.

For the 1965 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1965

Elections in Israel for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1965. Voter turnout was 80.4%....
, the party allied with Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
 to form the Labor Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
, which won 45 seats. On 23 January 1968 the party merged with Mapai and Rafi to for the Israeli Labor Party and ceased to exist as an individual entity.

External links

  • Knesset website