Likud
Likud, Hebrew: הליכוד - HaLikud, meaning The Consolidation, (official name: HaLikud-National Liberal Movement), commonly called Likud, is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is right-wing conservative liberal,[1] nationalist, and Zionist.
Political leader is Benjamin Netanyahu (also Prime Minister since 2009).
Likud was founded in 1973 as a a result of an alliance (and later on a merger in 1988) of six liberal and nationalist parties, like Gahal, Herut and the Liberal Party.
Founders were Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 36 (+4).
Participating in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions, Amnon Rapoport, Kluwer Academic, ISBN 0792306856, 1990, page 413: "Likud is a liberal-conservative party that gains much of its support from the lower and middle classes, and promotes free enterprise, nationalism, and expansionism."
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Coalition parties:
Likud faction (37: Likud [36], The Jewish Home [1]) ----
Blue and White (15: Israel Resilience Party [15]) ----
Shas (9) ----
United Torah Judaism (7: Agudat Yisrael [4], Degel HaTorah [3]) ----
HaAvoda (3) ----
Derekh Ererz (2) ----
Gesher (1)
Opposition parties:
Yesh Atid-Telem (16: Yesh Atid [13], Telem [3] ----
The Joint List (15: Hadash [5], Ra'am [4], Balad [3], Ta'al [3]) ----
Yisrael Beiteinu (7) ----
Yamina (5: New Right [3], Tkuma [2]) ----
Meretz (3)