All Topics  
Tkuma

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Tkuma
 
 
  Topics Tkuma Topic Home

Tkuma (Resurrection) was a right wing
Right-wing politics

In politics, right-wing, rightist and the Right are terms applied to Conservatism and reactionary positions. Originally, during the French Revolution, right-wing referred to seating arrangements in parliament; those who sat on the right supported the monarchy and aristocracy....
 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....
.

a was established in 1998 when 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....
 and Zvi Hendel
Zvi Hendel

Zvi Hendel is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Tkuma faction of the National Union between 1996 and 2009....
 left 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....
. At first the new party was named Emunim (Hebrew: ??????, Trust), but was later renamed Tkuma. Together with 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....
 and Herut – The National Movement they formed 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....
, which won four seats in the 1999 elections.

For the 2003 elections Yisrael Beiteinu joined the National Union (though Herut left), with its increased support helping to win 7 seats.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Tkuma'
Start a new discussion about 'Tkuma'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Tkuma (Resurrection) was a right wing
Right-wing politics

In politics, right-wing, rightist and the Right are terms applied to Conservatism and reactionary positions. Originally, during the French Revolution, right-wing referred to seating arrangements in parliament; those who sat on the right supported the monarchy and aristocracy....
 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....
.

Background

Tkuma was established in 1998 when 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....
 and Zvi Hendel
Zvi Hendel

Zvi Hendel is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Tkuma faction of the National Union between 1996 and 2009....
 left 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....
. At first the new party was named Emunim (Hebrew: ??????, Trust), but was later renamed Tkuma. Together with 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....
 and Herut – The National Movement they formed 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....
, which won four seats in the 1999 elections.

For the 2003 elections Yisrael Beiteinu joined the National Union (though Herut left), with its increased support helping to win 7 seats. The party was included in Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
's coalition alongside 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....
, 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...
, 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 Yisrael BaAliyah.

Because of tensions over the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel 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 four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
 (Tkuma was ideologically opposed, particularly because Hendel lived in the Gaza settlement of Ganei Tal
Ganei Tal

Ganei Tal was an Israeli settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip. Located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, it was established as a moshav in 1979 with a primarily agricultural purpose; exporting Pelargoniums and tomatoes to Europe....
), National Union ministers Binyamin Elon
Binyamin Elon

Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009....
 and Avigdor Lieberman were sacked, the former after attempting to avoid his fate by hiding, and the party left the coalition. However, the National Union was bolstered by the addition of Ahi which had split off from the National Religious Party when they decided remained in the coalition.

Before the 2006 elections Yisrael Beiteinu left the alliance to fight the election alone. However, at the last minute the National Religious Party decided to join the alliance, which won nine seats, two of which were allocated to Tkuma and taken by Hendel and Uri Ariel
Uri Ariel

Uri Yehuda Ariel is an Israeli politician who current serves as a member of the Knesset for the National Union ....
.

On 3 November 2008 the party announced a merger with Ahi, National Religious Party and Moledet to form a new right-wing party, which was later named The Jewish Home
The Jewish Home

The Jewish Home is a new right-wing national Religious Zionism political party in Israel. It was formed by a merger of the National Religious Party, Moledet and Tkuma in November 2008....
. However, around half the former Tkuma members later left the party to re-establish the National Union alongside Moledet, Hatikva
Hatikva (political party)

Hatikva is a minor List of political parties in Israel in Israel. A secular right wing politics party, it is headed by Aryeh Eldad, and forms one of the factions of the National Union alliance....
 and Eretz Yisrael Shelanu
Eretz Yisrael Shelanu

Eretz Yisrael Shelanu is a far-right religious party in Israel. Founded by prominent Chabad Rabbi Dov Wolpe, it seeks to prevent both the creation of a Palestinian state as well as the destruction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank....
.

See also

  • 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....
  • Religious Zionism
    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....


External links