Hatzohar

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Hatzohar

Hatzohar (an acronym for HaTzionim HaRevizionistim , lit. The Revisionist Zionists), officially Brit HaTzionim HaRevizionistim (lit. Union of Revisionist Zionists) was a Revisionist Zionist

Revisionist Zionism

Revisionist Zionism is a Nationalism faction within the Zionism movement. The ideology was developed originally by Ze'ev Jabotinsky who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, which was focused on independent settlement of Eretz Yisrael....
organisation and 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 Mandate Palestine and newly-independent 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....
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ohar was founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1925, along with its youth wing, Betar

Betar

The Betar Movement is a Revisionist Zionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir Jabotinsky. Betar members played important roles in the fight against the British during the Mandate, and in the creation of Israel....
. The name of Revisionist Zionist stems from the demand by some Zionists

Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
for a revision of Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
's policy of appeasement towards the British Government in Palestine.

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Hatzohar was founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1925, along with its youth wing, Betar

Betar

Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
for a revision of Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Weizmann

Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy

Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy was an Resistance movement Resistance during World War II operating during World War II in the area of the Warsaw Ghetto and fighting during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising....
, one of two Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish organisations that organised the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the History of the Jews in Poland insurgency that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in Occupation of Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp....
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At the time of Israel's independence

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

The Israeli Declaration of Independence , made on 14 May 1948 , the day the British Mandate of Palestine expired, was the official announcement that the new Jewish state named the Israel had been formally established in parts of what was known as the British Mandate for Palestine and on land where, in antiquity, the Kingdoms of Kingdom of I...
in 1948, it was the largest right-wing organisation in the country. However, the founding of Herut

Herut

Herut was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent to Revisionist Zionism....
by Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
in the same year dealt it a fatal blow. Although many purists alleged that Begin was out to steal Jabotinsky's mantle and refused to defect from the party, in Israel's first elections

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 ....
Hatzohar won less than 1% of the vote, failing to cross the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
's electoral threshold

Election threshold

In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to get any seats in the parliament....
. In contrast Herut won 11.5% of the vote and 14 seats. The party's electoral failure resulted in its disbandment shortly after.