Yamin Yisrael Explained

Yamin Yisrael
Leader:	Shaul Gutman Miriam Lapid Eleonora Shifrin
Founded:	24 July 1995
Split:	Moledet
Position:	Right-wing
Seats1 Title:	Most MKs
Seats1:	1 (1995–96)
Country:	Israel

Yamin Yisrael (he|ימין ישראל||Right Israel) was a minor right-wing political party in Israel.

Background

The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet.^[1] It ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.

In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%) and again failing to cross the threshold.

The party did not run in the 2009 elections.

Ideology

The party's objectives were to:^[2]

• Replace the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
• Institute a presidential system of government.
• Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
• Enforce the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
• Rescind citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
• Rescind large child allowances.
• Rescind the "grandfather clause" of the Law of Return (which allows individuals with a Jewish grandparent, but not recognised halakhically as Jews to claim Israeli citizenship).
• Allow Israelis living abroad to vote.
• Castigate CNN and the BBC for being "a facade for antisemitism".
• Phase out U.S. military aid to Israel.

External links

• Party history Knesset website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups . Knesset . 26 June 2015.
2. http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/Eidelberg-2002-04-17.phpA Jewish and Democratic Solution to the Arab Problem