Israeli legislative election, 1959

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Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections
Elections in Israel

Israel elects its national legislature, the Knesset, by proportional representation on a national list basis. The Knesset has 120 members, elected for terms of four years....
for the fourth Knesset were held 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....
on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%.

Non-qualifiers The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (9,693 votes):

fourth Knesset started with David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion

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Party	Votes	% of vote	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
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....	370,585	38.2%	47	47
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....	130,515	13.5%	17	17
National Religious Party National Religious Party The National Religious Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel representing the Religious Zionism movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992....	95,581	9.9%	12	12
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....	69,468	7.2%	9	9
General Zionists General Zionists The General Zionists were centrism within the Zionism movement and a List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud and Kadima parties.... ¹	59,700	6.2%	8	0
Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....	58,043	6.0%	7	7
Religious Torah Front Religious Torah Front The Religious Torah Front was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel composed of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael.... ²	45,569	4.7%	6	6
Progressive Party Progressive Party (Israel) The Progressive Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ¹	44,889	4.6%	6	0
Maki Maki (historical political party) Maki was a Communist party List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It is not the same party as the modern day Maki , which split from it during the 1960s and later assumed its name....	27,374	2.8%	3	3
Progress and Development Progress and Development Progress and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	12,347	1.3%	2	2
Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood Cooperation and Brotherhood was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	11,104	1.1%	2	2
Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development Agriculture and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....	10,902	1.1%	1	1
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1959 Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....	33,260	3.4%
Total	969,337	100%	120	120

Liberal Party Liberal Party (Israel) The Israeli Liberal Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud.... ¹
0	14
Agudat Israel Agudat Israel Agudat Israel began as the original political party representing Haredi Judaism in Israel. It was the umbrella party for almost all Haredi Jews in Israel, and before that in the British Mandate of Palestine.... ²
0	4
Agudat Israel Workers Agudat Israel Workers Agudat Israel Workers was a political party in Poland, and a political party and settlement movement in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew acronym .... ²
0	2

¹ The General Zionists and the Progressive Party merged to form the Liberal Party

² The Religious Torah Front split into its two constituent parts, Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (9,693 votes):

Independents
Independent Faction for Israeli Arabs
Israeli Arab Labour Party
Union of North African Immigrants (see Wadi Salib events
Wadi Salib events

The Wadi Salib events were a series of Demonstration and acts of vandalism in the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa in 1959. Those events were a social rebellion against ethnic discrimination, and against the Mapai establishment that ruled in Israel at that time....
)
National Union
New Immigrant Front
Progress and Work
Progress and Work

Progress and Work was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
Sephardim and Oriental Communities

Sephardim and Oriental Communities was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud party....
Socialist Union
Sepharadi National Party
The Holocaust Handicapped and Injured Faction
Third Power
Yemenite Faction

The Fourth Knesset

The fourth Knesset started with 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....
's Mapai party forming the ninth government on 17 December 1959. His coalition included the National Religious Party, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, the Progressive Party and the three Israeli Arab parties, Progress and Development, Cooperation and Brotherhood and Agriculture and Development. The government had 16 ministers. Mapai's Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969....
became 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....
.

The government collapsed when Ben-Gurion resigned on 31 January 1961, over a motion of no-confidence brought by Herut and the General Zionists concerning the Lavon Affair

Lavon Affair

The Lavon Affair refers to the scandal over a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as Operation Susannah, in which Israeli military intelligence planted bombs in Egyptian, United States and United Kingdom-owned targets in Egypt in the summer of 1954 in the hopes that "the Muslim Brotherhood, the Communists, 'unspecified malcon...
. After Ben-Gurion was unable to form a new government new 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%....
were called. At only one year and nine months, the fourth Knesset is the shortest Knesset term to date.

External links

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