Geulat Israel was a short-lived ultra-orthodox

Haredi Judaism

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 political party in Israel

Israel

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 in the early 1990s.

Background

The party was established on 25 December 1990 when Eliezer Mizrahi

Eliezer Mizrahi

Eliezer Mizrahi is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1988 and 1992, and as Deputy Minister of Health from 1990 until 1992.-Biography:...

 broke away from Agudat Yisrael. Despite leaving the party, Mizrahi remained Deputy Minister of Health

Health Minister of Israel

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.

The party participated in the 1992 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

, where it won 12,851 votes (0.5%). However, this was not enough to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and Mizrahi lost his seat. The party subsequently disappeared

External links

• Geulat Yisrael Knesset website