Tafnit
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Tafnit was an Israel
Israel
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i political party
Political party
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 and a social movement which was established by the Aluf
Aluf
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in reserve Uzi Dayan
Uzi Dayan
Uzi Dayan is an Aluf in the Israel Defense Forces and an Israeli politician. He is the nephew of General Moshe Dayan.-Early life and career:...

. The party participated in the 2006 elections, although did not gain any seats.

History

Tafnit was established as a social movement. Among the rest, the movement was involved in the design and the wording of the Gabizon-Meydan document and in the establishing of Sderot convention to society.

On 25 December 2005 Dayan announced that the movement would run in the election to the Knesset and would place in the top of its platform the struggle against the "public corruption".

The party is turning to the voters who identify themselves in the center of the political map. Likewise, the party is make run the "Dayan plan", a plan which offers to complete quickly as possible the building of the West Bank barrier
Israeli West Bank barrier
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 and to implement a unilateral action which in its center an evacuation of isolated settlements
Israeli settlement
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 in Samaria
Samaria
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, and creation of a border on demographic basis; the plan supposed to be kind of a second stage of the disengagement plan
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", and "Hitnatkut", was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from...

, that Dayan is among her creators.

The party did not pass the required threshold of popular vote and did not enter the 17th Knesset. It did not run in the 2009 elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009
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