Israeli legislative election, 1996

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Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth 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....
alongside the first ever election for Prime Minister

Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996

The first ever election for Prime Minister was held in Israel on 29 May 1996 alongside simultaneous Israeli legislative election, 1996. There were only two candidates, Shimon Peres of the Labor and Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud....
on 29 May, 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.

Results

¹ One Nation broke away from Labour.

² Two MKs from Labour and four from Likud left to form the Centre Party.

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Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel

Israel

Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats at start of session	Seats at end of session
Labour Labor (Israel) The Israeli Labor Party , generally known in Israel as Avoda is a center-left political party in Israel. It is a social democracy and Labor Zionism party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists.... ^{1 2}	818,741	26.8%	34	29
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.... -Gesher-Tzomet Tzomet Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ^{2 3}	767,401	25.1%	32	19
Shas Shas Shas is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Judaism Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews Judaism. Following the Israeli legislative election, 2006 in which Shas won 12 seats, it joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts....	259,796	8.5%	10	10
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.... ⁴	240,271	7.8%	9	7
Meretz Meretz-Yachad The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics.... ⁵	226,275	7.4%	9	7
Yisrael BaAliyah ⁶	174,994	5.7%	7	5
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.... -Balad ⁷	129,455	4.2%	5	3
United Torah Judaism United Torah Judaism United Torah Judaism is an Political alliance of Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel, two small Israeli Haredi Judaism Politics of Israel in the Knesset.... ⁸	98,657	3.2%	4	3
The Third Way Third Way (Israel) The Third Way was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the 1990s.... ⁹	96,474	3.1%	4	3
United Arab List United Arab List The United Arab List , commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Ra'am , is a political party representing and supported by Arab citizens of Israel....	89,514	2.9%	4	4
Moledet Moledet Moledet is a small right-wing political party in Israel. It advocates the notion of voluntary population transfer of the Arab population of the West Bank.... ¹⁰	72,002	2.4%	2	3
Non-qualifiers Israeli legislative election, 1996 Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel alongside the first ever Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996 on 29 May, 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%....	78,012	2.6%	0	0
Total	3,051,592	100%	120	120

Centre Party Centre Party (Israel) The Centre Party , originally known as Israel in the Centre, was a short-lived political party in Israel. Formed in 1999 by former Defense Minister of Israel Yitzhak Mordechai, the aim was to create a group of moderates to challenge both Binyamin Netanyahu on the right and opposition leader Ehud Barak's Labor Party on the left.... ^{2 11}
0	5
Herut – The National Movement ³
0	3
Gesher ³
0	3
One Nation ¹
0	3
Tzomet Tzomet Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ^{3 10}
0	2
Tkuma Tkuma Tkuma was a Right-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ⁴
0	2
Aliyah Aliyah (political party) Yisrael HaMithadeshet , formerly known as Aliyah is a minor List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... ⁶
0	2
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... ^{5 11}
0	2
Balad Balad AL-Balad is the historical area of Jeddah, the second largest city of Saudi Arabia. Balad can literally be translated as "The Town". Balad traces its history 2,500 years back as a fishing village when the Quda'a fishermen tribe settled there.... ⁷
0	2
Degel HaTorah Degel HaTorah Degel HaTorah is an Ashkenazi Jews Haredi Judaism List of political parties in Israel in Israel. For much of its existence it has been allied to Agudat Israel under the name United Torah Judaism.... ⁸
0	1
David Zucker ⁵
0	1
Emanuel Zisman ⁹
0	1
Mekhora Mekhora (political party) Mekhora was a short-lived one-man political faction in Israel in the late 1990s.... ¹⁰
0	0
HaTzeirim ¹¹
0	0
Source:

¹ One Nation broke away from Labour.

² Two MKs from Labour and four from Likud left to form the Centre Party. One MK later left to join Shinui.

³ Gesher, Herut and Tzomet broke away from the Likud-Gesher-Tzomet alliance.

⁴ Tkuma broke away from the National Religious Party.

⁵ Shinui and David Zucker broke away from Meretz

⁶ Aliyah broke away from Yisrael BaAliyah.

⁷ Balad left its alliance with Hadash.

⁸ Degel HaTorah broke away from United Torah Judaism, which changed its name to 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....
.

⁹ Emanuel Zisman left The Third Way.

¹⁰ Moshe Peled

Moshe Peled

Moshe Peled may refer to:*Moshe Peled , an Israeli politician who served as a Knesset member between 1992 and 1999.*Moshe Peled , an Israeli general during the Yom Kippur War...
broke away from Tzomet and formed Mekhora before joining Moledet.

¹¹ Eliezer Sandberg

Eliezer Sandberg

Eliezer Sandberg is a former Israeli politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004....
broke away from the Centre Party and formed HaTzeirim before joining Shinui.

Non-qualifiers

The following parties ran in the election, but did not cross the 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....
:

Gil
Men's Rights
Justice for All (political party)

The Man's Rights in the Family Party is a minor political party in Israel. It is currently headed by Yaakov Shlusser....
Organization for Democratic Action
Organization for Democratic Action

The Organisation for Democratic Action is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, where it is commonly known by the acronym, Da'am ....
Progressive Confederation
Settlement Party
The Party for the War against Banks

Koah HaKesef , formerly known as The Party for the War against Banks or HaLev is a minor political party in Israel. Their goal is to reduce damages that the banks are causing to the public by legislation in Israel....
Telem
Telem (political party)

Telem was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
Unity for the Defence of New Immigrants
Unity for Peace and Immigration

Unity for Peace and Immigration was a short-lived one man List of political parties in Israel in Israel in the early 1990s....
Yamin Israel
Yamin Israel

Yamin Israel was a minor right-wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....

In addition, two parties announced their intention to run in the election, but withdrew before election day:

Arabic Alliance for Progress and Change (headed by Ahmad Tibi
Ahmad Tibi

Dr. Ahmad Tibi is an Arab Israeli politician and leader of the Arab nationalist party in Israel, Ta'al . He currently serves as Deputy List of Knesset speakers....
)
Moreshet Avot

The fourteenth Knesset

Although Labour won the Knesset election, Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu won the election for Prime Minister, meaning he had the power to form the 27th government, which he did on 18 June, 1996.

Alongside his Likud-Gesher-Tzomet alliance, Netanyahu formed a coalition with Shas, the National Religious Party, Yisrael BaAliyah, United Torah Judaism and The Third Way, with 18 ministers.

Gesher broke away from the alliance with Likud and left the government coalition in January 1998.

Netanyahu faced several issues; the left argued the peace process was advancing too slowly, but signing the Hebron Agreement

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, also known as The Hebron Protocol or Hebron Agreement, began January 7 and was concluded from January 15 to January 17 1997 between Israel, represented by Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestine Liberation Organization , represented by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafa...
and the Wye River Memorandum

Wye River Memorandum

The Wye River Memorandum was an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestine Authority to implement the earlier Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip....
also caused him problems with the right-wing.

Eventually problems passing the state budget for 1999 led to early elections for both the Knesset and Prime Minister being called, which were held in May 1999.

External links

Knesset website
Knesset website

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Results

Non-qualifiers

The fourteenth Knesset

See also

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