Mizrachi , lit.
Religious Centre) was a
political party in
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...
and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day
National Religious PartyThe National Religious Party was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement...
.
The
Mizrachi movementThe Mizrachi is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. Bnei Akiva, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi...
was founded in 1902 in
VilniusVilnius Vilnius Vilnius as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the...
as a
religious ZionistReligious 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...
organisation. It also had a trade union,
Hapoel HaMizrachiHapoel HaMizrachi was a political party and settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party.-History:...
, started in 1921. In the British Mandate of Palestine the movement developed into a political party,
HaMizrachi.
For the
elections for the first KnessetElections 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...
it ran as part of a joint list called the
United Religious FrontThe United Religious Front was a political alliance of the four major religious parties in Israel formed to fight the 1949 elections.-History:...
alongside the
Hapoel HaMizrachiHapoel HaMizrachi was a political party and settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party.-History:...
,
Agudat IsraelAgudat 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...
and
Agudat Israel WorkersAgudat 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 .-History:...
.
Mizrachi , lit.
Religious Centre) was a
political party in
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...
and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day
National Religious PartyThe National Religious Party was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement...
.
History
The
Mizrachi movementThe Mizrachi is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. Bnei Akiva, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi...
was founded in 1902 in
VilniusVilnius Vilnius Vilnius as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the...
as a
religious ZionistReligious 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...
organisation. It also had a trade union,
Hapoel HaMizrachiHapoel HaMizrachi was a political party and settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party.-History:...
, started in 1921. In the British Mandate of Palestine the movement developed into a political party,
HaMizrachi.
For the
elections for the first KnessetElections 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...
it ran as part of a joint list called the
United Religious FrontThe United Religious Front was a political alliance of the four major religious parties in Israel formed to fight the 1949 elections.-History:...
alongside the
Hapoel HaMizrachiHapoel HaMizrachi was a political party and settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party.-History:...
,
Agudat IsraelAgudat 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...
and
Agudat Israel WorkersAgudat 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 .-History:...
. The group won 16 seats, of which the Mizrahi Party took two, making it the third largest party in the
KnessetThe Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Operation of the Knesset:...
after
MapaiMapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
and
MapamMapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:...
. It was invited to join the coalition government by
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...
.
The United Religious Front played a major part in bringing down the first government due to it disagreement with Mapai over issues pertaining to education in the new immigrant camps and the religious education system, as well as its demands that the Supply and Rationing Ministry be closed and a businessman appointed as Minister for Trade and Industry. Ben-Gurion resigned on 15 October, 1950. When the problems had been solved two weeks later, he formed the second government with the same coalition partners and ministers as previously.
In the
1951 electionsElections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%.-Results:¹ Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki...
the party ran for the Knesset alone. However, they won only two seats. They joined the coalition that made up the third government, and both its MKs were made ministers;
David-Zvi PinkasDavid-Zvi Pinkas was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.-Biography:...
became
Minister of TransportationThe Transportation Minister of Israel is the government minister at the head of the Transportation Ministry in Israel. A relatively minor post in the Israeli cabinet, it is often given to smaller parties in the governing coalitions...
and
Mordechai NurockRabbi Dr Mordechai Nurock was a Jewish politician and minister who served in both the parliaments of Latvia and Israel...
became Minister of Postal Services. However, when the third government collapsed, both Pinkas and Nurock lost their ministerial positions, although the party remained in the coalitions of the fourth, fifth and sixth governments.
For the
1955 electionsElections for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%.-Results:¹ Originally a coalition of Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi that ran for the election under the name National Religious Front before changing their name to Hapoel HaMizrachi-Mizrahi and then the...
the party joined forces with its ideological twin, Hapoel HaMizrachi, to form the
National Religious Front. The new party won 11 seats, making it the fourth largest, and were again coalition partners in both governments of the third Knesset. In 1956 the union of the two parties was made permanent, and the name changed to the
National Religious PartyThe National Religious Party was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement...
, which remains an influential force in Israeli politics to this day.
Knesset members
Knesset
(MKs) |
Knesset Members |
| 2nd Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%.-Results:¹ Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki...
(2) |
Mordechai NurockRabbi Dr Mordechai Nurock was a Jewish politician and minister who served in both the parliaments of Latvia and Israel...
, David-Zvi PinkasDavid-Zvi Pinkas was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.-Biography:...
(replaced by Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir) |
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