Talk:List of political parties in Israel

Lehi

The Lehi party is missing

It's not missing because it wasn't a party. Its political arm, the Fighters' List, is included. Number 57 20:29, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Klaliim

199.172.169.7 21:06, 28 November 2005 (UTC) Fixed spelling error in the word "Klaliim" for General Zionists

party platforms?

This article should include some brief explanation of each party's policy positions (particularly for those in the current Knesset) for readers unfamiliar with them. Just a list of names tell the reader nothing. -- Kendrick7^talk 20:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

National Bolshevik Party of Israel

Why did you remove the link to the article about the National Bolshevik Party of Israel??? --41.242.141.243 09:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

The article was deleted after a discussion on its lack of notability. Number 57 15:41, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

And not just notability, but the simple fact that this "party" never actually existed. A group of teenagers in red t-shirts is not a party. --Amir E. Aharoni 09:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Bead Artseinu

You also removed the article about Bead Artseinu. Why? --41.242.141.243 15:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

This article was also deleted after being prodded due to lack of notability. Number 57 15:41, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Colors

Just for information - the color scheme works as follows -

• Right Wing - Blue,
• Left - Red,
• Centre - Yellow,
• Rel. Jewish - Brown,
• Arab-Pink/Orange,
• Other-Green

Any suggestions for development/change is welcome. Flymeoutofhere (talk) 16:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

No offence, but I think it looks hideous. These aren't even necessarily the colours associated with the parties. I have reverted as such. пﮟოьεԻ 57 18:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

OK - I didnt think it looked great - but wanted some help in making it better. The US version of this article, for example, includes colors and I think if done right, it will be very effective. Flymeoutofhere (talk) 19:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

It can be ok, but only where there are only two or at most three colours. When there are too many colours it can look garish (plus several parties have the same colour, e.g. Labour and Hadash), so unfortunately this means it can't be applied to most articles on ministers, as so many different parties have held the post. пﮟოьεԻ 57 19:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

How about putting in the colors for the main three parties - and then doing the rest by right wing/left wing etc? Flymeoutofhere (talk) 20:01, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd rather not TBH; in some cases it's difficult to say whether a party is left-wing or right wing (e.g. Shas or Gil these days), and it might be considered WP:OR to define them ourselves. пﮟოьεԻ 57 20:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

How about for the three main parties? Flymeoutofhere (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it would really add much, and would look a little strange if only some rows had colouring. пﮟოьεԻ 57 21:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Seat distrbution

There are supposed to be 120 seats, but the section showing the number of seats per party sums to 121. Can someone fix that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauklzorz (talk • contribs) 13:20, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

tsomet -- never in the Knesseth?

tsomet is listed as a party that never was in the knesseth. 1988 and 1992 they made it into the knesseth. 178.5.92.131 (talk) 11:42, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

They are in that section because they do not currently have any Knesset seats. Does the party still actually exist in any form? Number 57 11:48, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

okay. but they should be in the list of "Former Parties" as well. Right?178.5.227.193 (talk) 12:35, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

If they still exist, then they shouldn't be in the "former parties" section. I don't know if they still exist or not though. However, I have added a note about them previously holding seats. Number 57 12:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Political ideology column & bar

I've added a "Political ideology" column and a bar below the table to quickly visualize the country's political leanings, but it was quickly deleted by User:Number 57 with the following edit summary: "rv overly simplistic description of parties; some parties have both right and left wing policies depending on the sphere, and agreement cannot even be reached on the individual articles".

While I agree it may be "overly simplistic", that's the point, to give the reader a rough idea of the country's current political preferences.

What does everyone think? Is this a good idea? What would you change? Thanks. Pristino (talk) 14:42, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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The following parties are represented following the 2013 elections:

Party	Leader	Seats	Ideology
Likud	Binyamin Netanyahu	20	Center-right
Yesh Atid	Yair Lapid	19	Centrist
Labor Party	Isaac Herzog	15	Center-left
The Jewish Home	Naftali Bennett	12	Right
Shas	Aryeh Deri	11	Centrist
Yisrael Beiteinu	Avigdor Lieberman	11	Right
United Torah Judaism	Yaakov Litzman	7	—
Hatnuah	Tzipi Livni	6	Center-left
Meretz	Zahava Gal-On	6	Center-left
United Arab List-Ta'al	Ibrahim Sarsur	4	—
Hadash	Mohammad Barakeh	4	Left
Balad	Jamal Zahalka	3	Center-left
Kadima	Shaul Mofaz	2	Centrist

Left 3%

Center-left 25%

Centrist 27%

Center-right 17%

Right 19%

Unknown 9%

• I think it's a very bad idea. As I stated in the edit summary, it's massively overly simplistic - it's almost impossible to say where (for example) Yisrael Beiteinu fit in the political spectrum as they are probably best described as a populist party with both right- and left-wing policies (you seem to be acknowledging this to some extent by failing to identify the places of UTJ and the United Arab List, but describing them as "Unknown" in the bar chart is a nonsense - the parties are very well known, it's just that they are difficult to place, or that you are not familiar with them). Moreover, there is also widespread disagreement about the exact place in the political spectrum of most of the parties - look at the "Political position" of the parties in their infoboxes - most are "Centre-right to right" or "Right to far-right", rather than identifying one simple position. Kadima has been described as centre-left, centrist and centre-right (usually depending on the bias of the author). In summary, trying to put simple labels on massively complex situations is not a productive approach. Number 57 15:13, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Party	Leader	Seats	Ideology
Likud	Binyamin Netanyahu	20	right-wing, nationalist
Yesh Atid	Yair Lapid	19	centrist, secular
Labor Party	Isaac Herzog	15	social democratic, Zionist
The Jewish Home	Naftali Bennett	12	right-wing, Orthodox, settler rights
Shas	Aryeh Deri	11	Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox
Yisrael Beiteinu	Avigdor Lieberman	11	right-wing, Zionist, nationalist
United Torah Judaism	Yaakov Litzman	7	Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox
Hatnuah	Tzipi Livni	6	centrist
Meretz	Zahava Gal-On	6	secular, left-wing, environmentalist, advocates withdrawal from the West Bank
United Arab List-Ta'al	Ibrahim Sarsur	4	Arab interests
Hadash	Mohammad Barakeh	4	socialist, minority interests
Balad	Jamal Zahalka	3	left-wing, Arab nationalist
Kadima	Shaul Mofaz	2	centrist, Zionist

I think a broad brush summary of each party's ideology is useful. Even if sources disagree, this page is supposed to be a brief overview and so it is reasonable to summarise the consensus view of each party's ideology and, citing due weight, ignore sources that present a view that differs from the majority viewpoint. DrKiernan (talk) 12:04, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

References

Page needs updating

This section [1] is out of date following the election.David O. Johnson (talk) 20:32, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

The table of former parties

The table of former parties is immensely useful, but I suggest it be increased to include the current parties as well to make it even more useful. For example, I can tell from this page that Gahal had seats from the 5th to 7th knessets but I can't find such information about Likud. Zero^talk 13:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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• From Yisrael Beiteinu: Khanin, Vladimir (Ze'ev) (2008). "Israel's "Russian" Parties". In Robert O. Freedman (ed.). Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy and Security Challenges. Westview Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0813343853.
• From Likud Yisrael Beiteinu: Khanin, Vladimir (Ze'ev) (2009), "Israel's "Russian" Parties", Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy and Security Challenges, Westview Press, p. 165

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Youth movements?

It's nice to have a table of youth movements, but why here? Isn't a "political party" an organization that fields candidates for election? Also, there is a long list at Zionist youth movement. Zero^talk 12:14, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Political parties in Israel have historically always been more than just "an organization that fields candidates for elections". Relevant to the political organization of these parties are the various youth and young-adult movements found within Israel. While Zionist youth movement does provide a longer list, the list found here is for youth movements connected to the political sphere in Israel through partisan affiliation (historical and contemporary); whereas the list found in the youth movement page is more numerous and worldwide. I think it's okay. AVSKYE (talk) 20:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Monarchist Party

Hi, so I've done some research regarding "Mahane Yehuda - Royalist Party" and found that It's not a very notable political organization, with it only having mediocre social media appearances (an inactive Twitter, disabled Facebook, and unfinished site). As aforementioned here before, "a couple of people with t-shirts and flag aren't a political party."

It's also important to note that Political Party Law (1992), section 5(1), and Basic Law: The Knesset both prohibit any political party that:negates the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Furthermore, this political "movement" is not registered with either the Political Party Registry, Voluntary Association Registry, or Corporate Registry at the Ministry of Justice. I propose striking it from the article. AVSKYE (talk) 20:40, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Making sense of this list

The Israeli political life is notably operating around "sectors" which work in "silos" with very little flows between each other:

• Haredi sector
• Arab sector
• Secular liberal
• Secular nationalist
• Religious nationalist

The article doesn't highlight this fact enough. Once you include this known fact, it becomes clear that the existence of parties in Israel, and their branding, is a mixture of ambition and PR, and just that: in 70 years, Israel has had more than a hundred political parties, yet that sectarian structure remained almost unchanged.

Kahlores (talk) 14:04, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Update following Religious Zionist Party split

Could someone update the "Current parties" section to reflect the split in the Religious Zionist Party? I've tried, but I keep messing up the table. David O. Johnson (talk) 23:23, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

I figured it out after some trial and error. David O. Johnson (talk) 19:22, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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