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Tehiya

Tehiya (Revival), originally known as Banai (Hebrew: ???"?, an acronym for Land of Israel Loyalists' Alliance (Hebrew: ???? ????? ??? ?????)), then Tehiya-Bnai (Hebrew: ?????-???"?), was a small right-wing political party 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....
that existed from 1979 until 1992. In the eyes of many, Tehiya was identified with Geula Cohen

Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
, who founded the party and headed it throughout its existence.

party was formed in 1979 during the term of the ninth Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1977

The Elections in Israel for the ninth Knesset were held on 17 May 1977. The dramatic shift in Israeli politics caused by the outcome led to it becoming known as "the revolution" , a phrase coined by TV anchor Haim Yavin when he announced the election results live on television with the words "Ladies and gentlemen - revolution!" ....
, when Geula Cohen

Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
and Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was one of the most important Israeli writers of modern times....
broke away from 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....
in response to the Camp David Treaty between Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
and Israel, particularly to the surrender of the Sinai peninsula

Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
to Egypt, and the eviction of its Israeli residents.

Tehiya was strongly affiliated with the extra-parliamentary movement of Gush Emunim

Gush Emunim

Gush Emunim was an Israeli political movement. The movement sprang out of the conquests of the Six-Day War in 1967, though it was not formally established as an organization until 1974, in the wake of the Yom Kippur War....
, and included prominent members of Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s in the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
and Gaza

Gaza

Gaza is a Palestinian people city in the Gaza Strip, approximately southwest of Jerusalem, with a population of 410,000, making it the largest city under the control of the Palestinian National Authority....
such as Hanan Porat

Hanan Porat

Hanan Porat is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya, the National Religious Party, Tkuma and the National Union during two spells; 1981 to 1984 and 1988 to 1999....
(later to be a member of the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
for the 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....
and the National Union

National Union (Israel)

The National Union is a nationalist List of political parties in Israel in Israel. In the Israeli legislative election, 2009 the Union was an alliance of four parties: Moledet, Hatikva , Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, and former Tkuma members....
) and Elyakim Haetzni.

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Israel

Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
, who founded the party and headed it throughout its existence.

Background

The party was formed in 1979 during the term of the ninth Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1977

Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
and Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was one of the most important Israeli writers of modern times....
broke away from Likud

Likud

Egypt

Sinai Peninsula

Gush Emunim

Israeli settlement

West Bank

Gaza

Hanan Porat

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
for the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

National Union (Israel)

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
Yuval Neeman.

In its first electoral test, the 1981 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections in Israel for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment , Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%....
, Tehiya picked up three seats. Despite their previous difference of opinion, they were included in Menachem Begin's coalition government alongside Likud, the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

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....
, 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....
and Telem

Telem (political party)

Telem was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
. Although Cohen did not take a ministerial position, Neeman became Minister of Science and Development.

In the 1984 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%....
, Tehiya became the third largest party in the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
after the 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....
and Likud, albeit with only five seats. However, they were excluded from 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....
and Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
's national unity government

National government

A national government is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency....
, which included the Alignment, Likud, the National Religious Party, Agudat Israel, 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....
, Morasha

Morasha

Morasha , later known as Morasha-Agudat Israel Workers was a short-lived small religious List of political parties in Israel in Israel during the 1980s....
, 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...
and Ometz

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....
. During the Knesset session Rafael Eitan

Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel....
defected from Tehiya to found a new party, Tzomet

Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
.

The party was reduced to three seats in the 1988 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections in Israel for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1988. Voter turnout was 78.9%....
, and was again left out of Shamir's national unity government. However, when the Alignment left the coalition in 1990, Tehiya were invited into a new narrow right-wing government which included Likud, the National Religious Party, Shas, Agudat Israel, 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....
, the Party for Advancing the Zionist Idea. Although Cohen again declined a ministerial position, Neeman was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Minister of Science and Technology. Despite its late entry to the government, the party pulled out of the coalition on 21 January, 1992 in protest over Yitzhak Shamir's participation in the Madrid conference

Madrid Conference of 1991

The Madrid Conference was hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the USA and the USSR. It convened on October 30 1991 and lasted for three days....
.

In the June 1992 elections, the party failed to 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....
, and subsequently disappeared. It is likely that most of its electorate went to Eitan's Tzomet

Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
, who jumped from two seats in the 1988 elections to eight in the 1992 votes. The two parties had competed on the same secular right-wing electorate, though Tzomet had a much more pronounced secular, even anti-religious stand.

Tehiya fronted a number of controversial positions in its time, some of which were adopted by the mainstream; most notably, the Jerusalem Law

Jerusalem Law

The Jerusalem Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Knesset on July 30, 1980 .It began as a private member's bill proposed by Geula Cohen, whose original text stated that "the integrity and unity of greater Jerusalem in its boundaries after the Six-Day War shall not be violated." However, this c...
enacted on July 30, 1980 establishing Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
as the capital of the State of Israel.

Knesset Members

Knesset (MKs)	Knesset Members
9th Israeli legislative election, 1977 The Elections in Israel for the ninth Knesset were held on 17 May 1977. The dramatic shift in Israeli politics caused by the outcome led to it becoming known as "the revolution" , a phrase coined by TV anchor Haim Yavin when he announced the election results live on television with the words "Ladies and gentlemen - revolution!" .... (2)	Geula Cohen Geula Cohen Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist.... , Moshe Shamir Moshe Shamir Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was one of the most important Israeli writers of modern times....
10th Israeli legislative election, 1981 Elections in Israel for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment , Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%.... (3)	Geula Cohen, Yuval Neeman, Hanan Porat Hanan Porat Hanan Porat is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya, the National Religious Party, Tkuma and the National Union during two spells; 1981 to 1984 and 1988 to 1999.... (replaced by Zvi Shiloah)
11th Israeli legislative election, 1984 Elections in Israel for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July, 1984. Voter turnout was 78.1%.... (5 –1)	Geula Cohen, Yuval Neeman, Gershon Shafat, Eliezer Waldman – Rafael Eitan Rafael Eitan Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel.... (to Tzomet Tzomet Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel.... )
12th Israeli legislative election, 1988 Elections in Israel for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1988. Voter turnout was 78.9%.... (3)	Geula Cohen, Yuval Neeman (replaced by Elyakim Haetzni), Eliezer Waldman (replaced by Gershon Shafat)

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