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Since Israel's founding, liberals have been active in politics. Note that the label "liberal" was also used by a conservative party that derived from the liberal current. At the moment Shinui, meaning "change" in Hebrew, represents liberalism by being a strongly anti-clerical, pro-free market liberal party. Shinui is a member of Liberal International. Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... The Liberal International is an international organization for international liberal parties. ...

While liberalism is usually suspicious of nationalism, Jewish liberals in Israel generally support some form of Zionism. By contrast, Balad draws upon liberal values in its aim to eliminate discrimination against Arabs and to redefine Israel as a state for all its citizens rather than a Jewish state. Poster promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s: Toward a New Life (in Romanian),The Promised Land (in Hungarian), in small (down) text is written First Palestinian sound movie 1844 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews by Mordecai Noah, page one. ... Balad (Hebrew acronym for Brit Leumit Demokrati (National Democratic Assembly), (in Arabic Al-Tajamu Al-Watani Al-Dīmūqrati; balad (بلد) is also Arabic for country) is a political party in Israel representing the Israeli Arab minority. ...

Timeline

From General Zionists to Liberal Party

• 1922: Centrists in the Zionist Organisation form the Organization of General Zionists (Zionim Klaliim).
• 1931–1945 General Zionists split into "Faction A" and "Faction B" over liberal issues such as economics, social issues and orientation to the Histadrut. Factions A and B merge in 1945.
• 1961: The party merges with the Progressive Party to become the Liberal Party (Miflaga Liberalit).
• 1965: The ML splits up, the conservatives continue as the Liberal Party which joins Herut to form Gahal (eventually becoming Likud), the liberal faction forms the Independent Liberal Party.
• 1988: The ML and Herut factions formally merge transforming Likud from an electoral coalition to a unitary political party.

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From Progressive Party to Independent Liberal Party

• 1949: Liberals form the Progressive Party (Miflaga Progresivit)
• 1961: The party merges with the General Zionists to become the Liberal Party (Miflaga Liberalit)
• 1965: The ML splits up, the conservatives continue as the Liberal Party, the liberals forming the Independent Liberal Party (Mifleget Liberalim Atzmaiim)
• 1980s: The MLA disappears.

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From Shinui to Shinui

• 1973: Amnon Rubinstein forms the protest party Shinui (שינוי)
• 1976: Shinui merges with the newly founded Democratic Party (Miflaga Demokratit) to become the Democratic Movement for Change (Tenua Demokratit le-Shinui, Dash)
• 1978: Dash splits up into the Democratic Movement (Tenua Demokratit), that is unsuccesful, and the Movement for Change and Initiative (Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma)
• 1981: The party renames itself "Shinui," and in 1988 becomes the "Shinui-Center Party" (Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz)
• 1992: The party merges with Mapam and Ratz to form Meretz, a left wing party with social democrat tendencies.
• 1998: Avraham Poraz splits with Meretz and recreates Shinui as an independent party.
• 1999: Joseph (Tommy) Lapid is invited by Poraz to head Shinui.
• 2006: Tommy Lapid leaves Shinui and Avraham Poraz secedes to form Hetz.

1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein (born 1931) is an Israeli scholar, politician, and columnist. ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Mapam - United Workers Party (in Hebrew: מפם - מפלגת פועלים מאוחדת Mifleget Poalim Meuhedet) was initially a Marxist-Zionist party. ... Ratz (Hebrew: רץ) was a left wing Israeli political party formed in 1973 by former Labour Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. ... Meretz (מרצ, Hebrew: vitality, energy) was an Israeli political party, considered to be on the left and secular. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Yosef Tommy Lapid ( יוסף טומי לפיד ) is an Israeli politician and a minister. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yosef Tommy Lapid ( יוסף טומי לפיד ) is an Israeli politician and a minister. ... Hetz (Arrow) is an Israeli political party, founded by former Shinui member Avraham Poraz, after he lost the inner Shinui elections to Ron Levintal. ...

Hetz

• 2006: Avraham Poraz secedes form Shinui to form Hetz.
• 2006: Both Shinui and Hetz fail to win any seats in the 2006 elections.

2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... Hetz (Arrow) is an Israeli political party, founded by former Shinui member Avraham Poraz, after he lost the inner Shinui elections to Ron Levintal. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... Hetz (Arrow) is an Israeli political party, founded by former Shinui member Avraham Poraz, after he lost the inner Shinui elections to Ron Levintal. ... Legislative elections will be held in Israel on 28 March 2006, following an agreement between the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and the new Leader of the Israel Labour Party, Amir Peretz. ...

Liberal leaders

• Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein (born 1931) is an Israeli scholar, politician, and columnist. ...

See also

• History of Israel
• Politics of Israel
• List of political parties in Israel
• List of Knesset members
• List of Likud Knesset Members
• Prime Minister of Israel
• Basic Laws of Israel