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Meimad (an acronym for Medina Yehudit, Medina Demokratit , lit. Jewish State, Democratic State) is a left-wing religious Zionist
Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Judaism, basing Zionism on the principles of Torah, Talmud et al and authentic heritage....
 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 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....
. Founded in 1999, it is based on the ideology of the Meimad movement founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital
Yehuda Amital

Rabbi Yehuda Amital, , born Yehuda Klein on 31 October 1924) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Cabinet of Israel....
. At the national level, it was in alliance with the Labour Party, and until the 2006 elections, received 10th spot on the Labour Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 list. Meimad ended the pact with the 2009 election and failed to win enough votes to be elected to the Knesset.

Meimad movement was founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital
Yehuda Amital

Rabbi Yehuda Amital, , born Yehuda Klein on 31 October 1924) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Cabinet of Israel....
.






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Meimad (an acronym for Medina Yehudit, Medina Demokratit , lit. Jewish State, Democratic State) is a left-wing religious Zionist
Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Judaism, basing Zionism on the principles of Torah, Talmud et al and authentic heritage....
 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 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....
. Founded in 1999, it is based on the ideology of the Meimad movement founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital
Yehuda Amital

Rabbi Yehuda Amital, , born Yehuda Klein on 31 October 1924) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Cabinet of Israel....
. At the national level, it was in alliance with the Labour Party, and until the 2006 elections, received 10th spot on the Labour Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 list. Meimad ended the pact with the 2009 election and failed to win enough votes to be elected to the Knesset.

History

The Meimad movement was founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital
Yehuda Amital

Rabbi Yehuda Amital, , born Yehuda Klein on 31 October 1924) is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Cabinet of Israel....
. Eleven years later a political arm was established, and joined the One Israel
One Israel

One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party , Meimad and Gesher created to run for the Israeli legislative election, 1999....
 alliance that won the elections that year. Meimad received one seat, taken by Michael Melchior
Michael Melchior

Rabbi Michael Melchior is a Denmark-Norway rabbi, an Israeli politician and leader of the left-wing religious party Meimad, which he represented in the Knesset....
. It gained a second when Yehuda Gilad
Yehuda Gilad (politician)

Rabbi Yehuda Gilad is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Meimad between 2002 and 2003....
 replaced Maxim Levy
Maxim Levy

Maxim Levy was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gesher and One Israel between 1996 and 2002, as well as mayor of Lod between 1983 and 1996....
 in 2002. Tova Ilan
Tova Ilan

Tova Ilan is an Israeli educator and former politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Meimad between January and April 2006....
 also represented Meimad in the Knesset for a brief spell in 2006 after several other Labour MKs resigned.

In November 2008 minister and former Labour Party member Ami Ayalon
Ami Ayalon

Amihai "Ami" Ayalon is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Israeli Navy....
 joined Meimad. In the same month the party ended its alliance with Labour after being told that 10th spot on the list would no longer be reserved for Meimad for the 2009 legislative elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009

Elections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government....
.

Shortly afterwards, Ayalon announced his resignation from politics, and the party has formed an umbrella alliance with the Green Movement.

Ideology

The party emphasizes the values of many social democratic parties, except on religious issues. Meimad, like Labour, takes a center-left approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli?Palestinian conflict is an ongoing dispute between Israelis and the Palestinian people. It forms part of the wider Arab?Israeli conflict....
. However, it advocates the inclusion of religious studies
Torah study

Torah study is the study by Jewish people of the Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts....
 in the main curriculum of Israel's public schools, and encourages the use of rabbinical court
Beth din

A beth din, beit din or beis din is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Land of Israel....
s in addition to civil courts.

Under Melchior, the party has taken an even more left leaning approach both in foreign and especially in domestic affairs. The party has run in municipal elections in 2003, winning a number of key seats in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. It also ran together with Meretz party in Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
 in which it shares a seat under a rotation agreement. Shlomo Yaakov Rapaport serves on the Haifa city council representing Meimad and is presently the Chairman of the Haifa Aliyah and absorption committee as well of the Chairman of the Municipal committee against Alcohol and Drug abuse.

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