Israeli legislative election, 1981

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Israeli legislative election, 1981

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 tenth 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 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres

Order of St Michael and St George is the ninth and current President of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel in a political career spanning over 66 years....
's 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....
, Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%.

Non-qualifiers The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (19,373 votes):

Kach however would get one seat in the 1984 elections after many unsuccessful runs.

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Shimon Peres

Alignment (political party)

Menachem Begin

Likud

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties.... ¹	718,941	37.1%	48	46
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.... ^{1 4}	708,536	36.6%	47	49
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.... ^{2 5}	95,232	4.9%	6	5
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....	72,312	3.7%	4	4
Hadash Hadash Hadash is a far-left List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Hadash defines itself as a 'Jewish-Arab Party'. Most of its voters and leaders are Israeli Arabs....	64,918	3.4%	4	4
Tami Tami Tami was a Sephardi Jews-dominated List of political parties in Israel in Israel during the 1980s. It was led by Aharon Abuhatzira for its entire existence....	44,918	2.3%	3	3
Tehiya Tehiya Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small Right wing politics political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992....	40,700	2.3%	3	3
Telem Telem (political party) Telem was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ³	30,600	1.6%	2	0
Shinui Shinui Shinui was a Zionism, secular and Anti-clericalism free market Liberalism worldwide in Israel. The party twice become the third largest in the Knesset, but on both occasions it was followed by a split and collapse; in Israeli legislative election, 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for Change, but the alliance spl...	29,837	1.5%	2	2
Ratz ⁴	27,921	1.4%	1	1
Non-qualifiers	103,451	5.3%
Total valid votes	1,937,366	100%

Rafi – National List Ometz (political party) Ometz , originally Rafi ? National List , then the National List was a small Right-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which existed briefly in 1981, and then from 1983 until 1987.... ³
0	1
Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism The Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism was a short-lived minor List of political parties in Israel in Israel during the mid-1980s.... ³
0	1
Haim Druckman ²
0	1
Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre Gesher ? Zionist Religious Centre was a short-lived political faction in Israel in the early 1980s.... ⁵
0	0

¹ Two MKs defected from Likud to the Alignment.

² Haim Druckman left the National Religious Party and sat as an independent MK.

³ Telem split into Ometz and the Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism.

⁴ Ratz joined the Alignment but then broke away again.

⁵ Two MKs left the National Religious Party and formed Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre before returning to the NRP two weeks later.

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran for election, but did not pass the electoral threshold of 1% (19,373 votes):

Development and Peace
Development and Peace

Development and Peace , originally known as Flatto-Sharon was a Right wing politics one-man List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
Independent Liberals
Independent Liberals (Israel)

The Independent Liberals were a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and are one of the ancestors of the modern-day Labor Party ....
Kach
Kach and Kahane Chai

Kach was a far right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Kahanism ideology, the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures....
Left Camp of Israel
Left Camp of Israel

The Left Camp of Israel was a Left wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was also known as Sheli , an acronym for Peace for Israel ....

Kach however would get one seat in the 1984 elections after many unsuccessful runs. It is notable that no solely Israeli Arab parties were elected to the tenth Knesset (despite its largely Arab support, Hadash is a mixed party, and included the 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 Meir Vilner

Meir Vilner

Meir Vilner was an Israeli Communism politician and Jewish leader of the Maki , which consisted primarily of Israeli Arabs. He was the youngest and longest surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence in 1948....
amongst its MKs), the only occasion on which this has happened.

The Tenth Knesset

The nineteenth government was formed 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....
on 5 August, 1981, including Likud, the National Religious Party, Agudat Israel, Tami and Telem, and had 17 ministers. Tehiya joined the coalition on 26 August, upping the total to 18 ministers. Likud's Menachem Savidor was appointed 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....
. One of the government's first acts was to pass a bill annexing the Golan Heights

Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
. It also oversaw the Lebanon War

1982 Lebanon War

The 1982 Lebanon War , , called by Israel the Operation Peace of the Galilee , and later colloquially also known in Israel as the First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon....
and the subsequent Sabra and Shatila massacre

Sabra and Shatila massacre

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Christian militia group after the Israeli Defense Forces allowed Lebanese Kataeb Party militiamen to enter two Palestinian refugee camps, and the militia massacred civilians inside....
, which resulted in Defence Minister Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
losing his job. The country was also hit by several economic crises, including the collapse of most of the banking sector and hyper-inflation. Meanwhile, the religious parties (NRP and Agudat Israel) managed to pass a law banning state airline El Al

El Al

El Al is the national airline of Israel. It operates regular international passenger and cargo flights between its Airline hub at Ben Gurion International Airport and destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as domestic connections to Eilat....
from flying on Shabbat

Shabbat

Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
.

Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
formed the 20th government on 10 October, 1983 after Begin had resigned for health reasons. He included the same parties in his coalition, but with 20 ministers. The next elections

Israeli legislative election, 1984

Elections in Israel for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July, 1984. Voter turnout was 78.1%....
were held on 23 July, 1984.

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