#Political Party
5 entries tagged Political Party.
Organizations (5)
- Democratic Party The Democratic Party is one of the two major American political parties, whose presidential campaigns from 1960 onward were substantially funded by Abraham Feinberg - the most important Jewish fundraiser for the party - in exchange for continued Democratic support for Israel.
- Labor Party The Labor Party is an Israeli center-left political party formed in 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Achdut Avodah, and later Rafi, under the economic leadership of Pinhas Sapir.
- Likud Party The Likud Party is Israel's major right-wing nationalist political party whose surprise May 1977 victory ended twenty-nine years of Labor dominance and brought to power a government under Menachem Begin even more committed to the Samson Option nuclear deterrent.
- Mapai Party Mapai (Israel Workers' Party) was the dominant political party in Israel from the state's founding through 1968, whose total control under David Ben-Gurion shaped Israeli nuclear policy and whose internal disputes over the Lavon Affair permanently split the party.
- Rafi Rafi (Israel Workers' List) was an Israeli political party founded in June 1965 by David Ben-Gurion after his resignation from Mapai, with Shimon Peres as its power broker and Moshe Dayan as a prominent member.