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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
==Kingdom of Yisrael== | ==Kingdom of Yisrael== | ||
=== | ===Fourth Party System (2019-Present)=== | ||
=== | {{main|Centrist Revolt|Hezekian Reaction|Neoconservatism (Yisrael)}} | ||
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center" | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! rowspan=2 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=2 | Years | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! colspan=9 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! rowspan=2 | President | |||
! rowspan=2 | Governing Majority Party | |||
! rowspan=2 | Margin of Majority Control | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|RCP]] | |||
! [[Torah Achdus|TA]] | |||
! [[Action Yisrael|AY]] | |||
! [[Alternative for Yisrael|AfY]] | |||
! [[National Liberal Party (Yisrael)|NLP]] | |||
! [[Party of the Left|PL]] | |||
! [[Christian Voice|CV]] | |||
! {{wp|Independent (politician)|Ind.}} | |||
! <small>Vacancies</small> | |||
|- | |||
| '''50th''' | |||
| 2022-2024 | |||
| bgcolor=#4080c0 | 62 | |||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 18 | |||
| bgcolor=#C5CE88 | 14 | |||
| bgcolor=#ADD8E6 | 19 | |||
| bgcolor=#FFE135 | 16 | |||
| bgcolor=#48BF91 | 9 | |||
| bgcolor=#E2DFD2| 3 | |||
| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | [[Yitzchok Katz]] | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | '''[[Spring and flag coalitions#Flag_coalitions|Blue-Silver]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | |||
| bgcolor=#acbefb | +47 (to [[United Center Bloc|UCB]]'s 33 seats)/<br> +18 (to all minority parties) | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center" | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! rowspan=2 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=2 | Years | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! colspan=12 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! rowspan=2 | President | |||
! rowspan=2 | Governing Majority Party | |||
! rowspan=2 | Margin of Majority Control | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|RCP]] | |||
! [[Constitutional Liberal Party|CLP]]<sup>2</sup> | |||
! [[Torah Achdus|TA]] | |||
! [[Action Yisrael|AY]] | |||
! [[Alternative for Yisrael|AfY]] | |||
! [[Alliance of Greens, Seculars, and Workers|AGSW]]<sup>2</sup> | |||
! [[League for New Judea|LNJ]] | |||
! [[National Liberal Party (Yisrael)|NLP]]<sup>2</sup> | |||
! [[Party of the Left|PL]]<sup>2</sup> | |||
! [[Christian Voice|CV]]<sup>3</sup> | |||
! {{wp|Independent (politician)|Ind.}} | |||
! <small>Vacancies</small> | |||
|- | |||
| '''49th''' | |||
| 2020-2022 | |||
| bgcolor=#4080c0 | 64 | |||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 14-13<sup>1</sup>/13-0<sup>2</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 19 | |||
| bgcolor=#C5CE88 | 17-18<sup>1</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#ADD8E6 | 25-26<sup>2</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#7CFC00 | 1-0<sup>2</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#800000 | 2-1<sup>3</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#FFE135 | 0-8<sup>2</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#48BF91 | 0-5<sup>2</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#E2DFD2| 0-1<sup>3</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | [[Yitzchok Katz]] | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | '''[[Spring and flag coalitions#Flag_coalitions|Blue-Silver-Maroon]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | |||
| bgcolor=#acbefb | +43 (to [[United Center Bloc|UCB]]'s 42 seats)/<br> +28 (to all minority parties) | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
'''Footnotes''' | |||
<br><small>1. {{wp|Centrist}} Con-Lib MK [[Shaul Goldfarb]] {{wp|Party-switching|defected}} to the [[Action Yisrael]] party in the [[United Center Bloc]] on December 2, 2020, reducing the Con-Libs from 14 to 13 MKs.</small> | |||
<br><small>2. On April 27, 2021, the [[Constitutional Liberal Party]] [[Constitutional Liberal Party#Dissolution|dissolved itself]], with the establishment and nationalist wings forming the [[National Liberal Party (Yisrael)|National Liberals]] and the far-left populists merging with the [[Alliance of Greens, Seculars, and Workers]] to form the [[Party of the Left]]. Of the former Con-Lib sitting {{wp|Member of Knesset|Members of Knesset}}, 8 joined the Nat-Libs, 4 (along with the Alliance's 1) joined the Party of the Left, and 1 (former Con-Lib Knesset leader [[Yaakov Luzzatto]]) defected to the AfY.</small> | |||
<br><small>2. In the [[November 7, 2021 special election in the Yarden Valley]], newfound [[Christian Voice]] candidate [[Elyas Khoury]] won in an upset, entering the Knesset as the first of his party with two months left of the 49th session of the Knesset before the 2022 midterm elections. His victory cost the Northern League one of their two seats.</small> | |||
===Third Party System (1974-2019)=== | ===Third Party System (1974-2019)=== | ||
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| '''48th''' | | '''48th''' | ||
| 2018-2020 | | 2018-2020 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 59 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 42-32<sup>1</sup> | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 42-32<sup>1</sup> | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | ||
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| 0 | | 0 | ||
| rowspan=4 bgcolor=#acbefb | [[Noah Feldman]] | | rowspan=4 bgcolor=#acbefb | [[Noah Feldman]] | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | '''[[ | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#acbefb | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Flag_coalitions|Blue-Gray-Maroon]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | ||
| bgcolor=#acbefb | +4/<br>+20 (with {{wp|supply and confidence}} from [[Torah Achdus]]) | | bgcolor=#acbefb | +4/<br>+20 (with {{wp|supply and confidence}} from [[Torah Achdus]]) | ||
|- | |- | ||
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| '''47th''' | | '''47th''' | ||
| 2016-2018 | | 2016-2018 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 64 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 39 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 39 | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 18 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 18 | ||
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| '''46th''' | | '''46th''' | ||
| 2014-2016 | | 2014-2016 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 41 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 66 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 66 | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 15 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 15 | ||
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| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 3 | | bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 3 | ||
| 1 | | 1 | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[ | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Gray-Green-White]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | +5 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | +5 | ||
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| '''45th''' | | '''45th''' | ||
| 2012-2014 | | 2012-2014 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 64 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 48 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 48 | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | ||
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| '''44th''' | | '''44th''' | ||
| 2010-2012 | | 2010-2012 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 58 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 51 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 51 | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 16 | ||
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| '''43rd''' | | '''43rd''' | ||
| 2008-2010 | | 2008-2010 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 52 | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 60 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 60 | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 13 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 13 | ||
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| 0 | | 0 | ||
| rowspan=4 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[Eitan Herzog]] | | rowspan=4 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[Eitan Herzog]] | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[ | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Green-Oceanic-White]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | +1 | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | +1 | ||
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| '''42nd''' | | '''42nd''' | ||
| 2006-2008 | | 2006-2008 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 57<sup>7</sup> | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 57<sup>7</sup> | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 57<sup>7</sup> | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 14 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 14 | ||
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| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 5 | | bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 5 | ||
| 0 | | 0 | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[ | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Green-Oceanic-White]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | +1<sup>7</sup> | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | +1<sup>7</sup> | ||
|- | |- | ||
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| '''41st''' | | '''41st''' | ||
| 2004-2006 | | 2004-2006 | ||
| bgcolor=# | | bgcolor=#4080c0 | 46-45<sup>10</sup> | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 66-67<sup>10</sup> | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | 66-67<sup>10</sup> | ||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 12 | | bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 12 | ||
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| 3 | | 3 | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[Eitan Herzog]] | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[Eitan Herzog]] | ||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[ | | rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Green-Oceanic]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | ||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | +4/+5<sup>10</sup> | | bgcolor=#EAA328 | +4/+5<sup>10</sup> | ||
|- | |||
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center" | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! rowspan=2 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=2 | Years | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! colspan=10 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! rowspan=2 | President | |||
! rowspan=2 | Governing Majority Party | |||
! rowspan=2 | Margin of Majority Control | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|RCP]] | |||
! [[Constitutional Liberal Party|CLP]] | |||
! [[Torah Achdus|TA]] | |||
! [[Green Party (Yisrael)|GP]] | |||
! [[Yisraeli Labor Party|YLP]] | |||
! [[National Union Party (Yisrael)|NUP]] | |||
! [[Yisraeli Christian Association|YCA]] | |||
! [[Independent Liberals (political faction)|IL]]<sup>11</sup> | |||
! {{wp|Independent (politician)|Ind.}} | |||
! Vacan<br/>cies | |||
|- | |||
| '''40th''' | |||
| 2002-2004 | |||
| bgcolor=#4080c0 | 45-46<sup>11</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 68-49/49-67<sup>11</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 11 | |||
| bgcolor=#7CFC00 | 2 | |||
| bgcolor=##FFC0CB| 2 | |||
| bgcolor=##228b22| 6 | |||
| bgcolor=#ADD8E6 | 3 | |||
| bgcolor=#D4AF37 | 0-18/18-0<sup>11</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 5 | |||
| 0 | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[List of heads of government of Yisrael|Naor Hillel]]<br><small>(January 2000 - [[Greenbaum and Hillel scandals#Hillel scandal|June 2002]])</small><br>[[List of heads of government of Yisrael|Ariel Halevi]]<br><small>(June 2002 - January 2004)</small> | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Constitutional Liberal Party|Gold]]'''-'''[[Torah Achdus|Silver]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}}<br><small>(January 2002 - June 2002)</small>/<br>'''[[Whirlwind Knesset of 2002|Various coalition majorities]]'''<br><small>(June 2002 - February 2003)</small>/<br>'''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Metallic-White]]''' {{wp|Coalition government|coalition}}<br><small>(February 2003 - January 2004)</small><sup>11</sup> | |||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | ''See'' [[Whirlwind Knesset of 2002]] | |||
|- | |||
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center" | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! rowspan=2 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=2 | Years | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! colspan=9 | Knesset | |||
! rowspan=999 | | |||
! rowspan=2 | President | |||
! rowspan=2 | Governing Majority Party | |||
! rowspan=2 | Margin of Majority Control | |||
|- valign=bottom | |||
! [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|RCP]] | |||
! [[Constitutional Liberal Party|CLP]] | |||
! [[Torah Achdus|TA]] | |||
! [[Green Party (Yisrael)|GP]] | |||
! [[Yisraeli Labor Party|YLP]] | |||
! [[National Union Party (Yisrael)|NUP]] | |||
! [[Yisraeli Christian Association|YCA]] | |||
! {{wp|Independent (politician)|Ind.}} | |||
! Vacan<br/>cies | |||
|- | |||
| '''39th''' | |||
| [[Yisraeli general election, 2000|2000]]-2002 | |||
| bgcolor=#4080c0 | 41 | |||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | 71 | |||
| bgcolor=#C0C0C0 | 12 | |||
| bgcolor=#7CFC00 | 2 | |||
| bgcolor=##FFC0CB| 2 | |||
| bgcolor=##228b22| 4 | |||
| bgcolor=#ADD8E6 | 3 | |||
| bgcolor=#FFFFFF | 7 | |||
| 0 | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | [[List of heads of government of Yisrael|Noar Hillel]] | |||
| rowspan=1 bgcolor=#EAA328 | '''[[Spring_and_flag_coalitions#Spring_coalitions|Gold-Silver-Pale-Green-Oceanic-White]]''' {{wp|coalition government|coalition}} | |||
| bgcolor=#EAA328 | +42 | |||
|- | |||
|} | |} | ||
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<br><small>6. None of the vacancies resulted in a change of partisan affiliation. All the seats were filled by persons of the same party.</small> | <br><small>6. None of the vacancies resulted in a change of partisan affiliation. All the seats were filled by persons of the same party.</small> | ||
<br><small>7. Vice-President [[Oren Waltenstein]] would often be required to stay on premises for Knesset votes to cast the deciding vote due to the {{wp|hung parliament|evenly-split Knesset}} between HRM Government led by the Con-Lib-Green-Labor-YCA-Indep. coalition (71) and HRM Opposition of the Conservatives and their allies the Torah Achdus party (71).</small> | <br><small>7. Vice-President [[Oren Waltenstein]] would often be required to stay on premises for Knesset votes to cast the deciding vote due to the {{wp|hung parliament|evenly-split Knesset}} between HRM Government led by the Con-Lib-Green-Labor-YCA-Indep. coalition (71) and HRM Opposition of the Conservatives and their allies the Torah Achdus party (71).</small> | ||
<br><small>8. The Northern League, although in existence since 1974, had no won any seats since the 1980s. The party had a leadership election in February 14th, 2006, and elected [[David Touro]] as party chairman. Touro rebranded the party as "far right lite" and moderated the more extreme stances of the party as well as recruited credible right-wing activists and buildt needed campaign infrastructure in the [[Yarden River Valley | <br><small>8. The Northern League, although in existence since 1974, had no won any seats since the 1980s. The party had a leadership election in February 14th, 2006, and elected [[David Touro]] as party chairman. Touro rebranded the party as "far right lite" and moderated the more extreme stances of the party as well as recruited credible right-wing activists and buildt needed campaign infrastructure in the [[Yarden River Valley]] to field successful candidates for the next election cycle.</small> | ||
<br><small>9. The {{wp|right-wing}} [[National Union (Yisrael)|National Union]] {{wp|Merger (politics)|merged}} with the [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservatives]] several months before the [[Yisraeli general election, 2006|2006 elections]].</small> | <br><small>9. The {{wp|right-wing}} [[National Union (Yisrael)|National Union]] {{wp|Merger (politics)|merged}} with the [[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservatives]] several months before the [[Yisraeli general election, 2006|2006 elections]].</small> | ||
<br><small>10. [[Avigdor Korvo]], an MK from [[Ashkelon]], {{wp|party-switching| | <br><small>10. [[Avigdor Korvo]], an former Con-Lib MK from [[Ashkelon]] who had defected to the Conservatives during the [[Whirlwind Knesset of 2002]], {{wp|party-switching|switched back}} several days after the election from Conservative to Con-Lib and was given a prominent role on the Knesset Appropriations Committee.</small> | ||
<br><small>11. In March 2002, the [[Greenbaum and Hillel scandals|Hillel corruption allegations emerged]]. Over the next couple of months, more accusations and evidence surfaced, which led to calls for Hillel to resign. Defiant, Hillel initially refused, doubling down on his protestations of innocence. In April 2002, Con-Lib MK [[Avigdor Korvo]] defected to the Conservatives, citing Hillel's corruption and refusal to be held accountable. By May, a majority of the Con-Lib MKs agreed to bring a {{wp|vote of no confidence}} and draft up articles of {{wp|impeachment}} in cooperation with the Conservatives. In early June 2002, Hillel and [[Torah Achdus]] leader and MK [[Torah_Achdus#Swing-vote_status_.281980s-2009.29|Nechemia Valkenburger]], who was accused of being in league with Hillel on various charges, resigned. [[Ariel Halevi]], the registered {{wp|Independent (politician)|Independent}} vice-president, became [[Presidency of Yisrael|President]]. Fearing his centrist tendencies and lack of formal affiliation with the party, a group of left-wing Con-Lib MKs approached Halevi and demanded he become a Con-Lib to "comfortably" head the party. Halevi refused. Days after taking over, he fired scores of close Hillel confidantes and aides, replacing them with a mix of more moderate Con-Libs, non-partisans, and moderate Conservatives, much to the party establishment's shock. As detailed in the [[Whirlwind Knesset of 2002]], a faction of Halevi-supporting Con-Libs broke with their Knesset leadership and formed the [[Independent Liberals (political faction)|Independent Liberals]]. The leftist third parties refused to work with Halevi, so he stitched together a coalition of Independent Liberals and right-wing parties. That, too, fell apart after awhile. In 8 months, the Knesset had had three majorities rise and fall. In mid-2003, after Halevi announced he was not running for re-election, he and the Con-Lib establishment negotiated a deal towards the end of his term to make amends and the fractured Knesset Con-Libs reunited. </small> | |||
===Second Party System (1951-1974)=== | |||
===First Party System (1922-1941)=== | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[Politics of Yisrael]] | |||
* [[Electoral College in Yisrael]] | |||
* [[Factionalism in Yisrael]] | |||
* [[Centrist Revolt|Centrist Revolt of 2019 - present]] | |||
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Introduction
Kingdom of Yisrael
Fourth Party System (2019-Present)
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
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RCP | TA | AY | AfY | NLP | PL | CV | Ind. | Vacancies | |||||||
50th | 2022-2024 | 62 | 18 | 14 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yitzchok Katz | Blue-Silver coalition | +47 (to UCB's 33 seats)/ +18 (to all minority parties) |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||||||
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RCP | CLP2 | TA | AY | AfY | AGSW2 | LNJ | NLP2 | PL2 | CV3 | Ind. | Vacancies | |||||||
49th | 2020-2022 | 64 | 14-131/13-02 | 19 | 17-181 | 25-262 | 1-02 | 2-13 | 0-82 | 0-52 | 0-13 | 0 | 0 | Yitzchok Katz | Blue-Silver-Maroon coalition | +43 (to UCB's 42 seats)/ +28 (to all minority parties) |
Footnotes
1. Centrist Con-Lib MK Shaul Goldfarb defected to the Action Yisrael party in the United Center Bloc on December 2, 2020, reducing the Con-Libs from 14 to 13 MKs.
2. On April 27, 2021, the Constitutional Liberal Party dissolved itself, with the establishment and nationalist wings forming the National Liberals and the far-left populists merging with the Alliance of Greens, Seculars, and Workers to form the Party of the Left. Of the former Con-Lib sitting Members of Knesset, 8 joined the Nat-Libs, 4 (along with the Alliance's 1) joined the Party of the Left, and 1 (former Con-Lib Knesset leader Yaakov Luzzatto) defected to the AfY.
2. In the November 7, 2021 special election in the Yarden Valley, newfound Christian Voice candidate Elyas Khoury won in an upset, entering the Knesset as the first of his party with two months left of the 49th session of the Knesset before the 2022 midterm elections. His victory cost the Northern League one of their two seats.
Third Party System (1974-2019)
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | AY | AfY1 | AGSW | LNJ | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
48th | 2018-2020 | 59 | 42-321 | 16 | 12 | 0-101 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Noah Feldman | Blue-Gray-Maroon coalition | +4/ +20 (with supply and confidence from Torah Achdus) |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | AY | AGSW | LNJ | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
47th | 2016-2018 | 64 | 39 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2 | Noah Feldman | Blue-Maroon coalition | +32 | ||
46th | 2014-2016 | 41 | 66 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Gold-Gray-Green-White coalition | +5 | |||
45th | 2012-2014 | 64 | 48 | 16 | 5 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Blue-Silver coalition | +8 |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | AY4 | GP | YLP | LNJ | YCA5 | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
44th | 2010-2012 | 58 | 51 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 46 | Eitan Herzog | Blue-Silver coalition | +2 |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | LNJ | YCA | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
43rd | 2008-2010 | 52 | 60 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | Eitan Herzog | Gold-Green-Oceanic-White coalition | +1 | ||
42nd | 2006-2008 | 577 | 577 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 08 | 4 | 5 | 0 | Gold-Green-Oceanic-White coalition | +17 |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | NUP | YCA | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
41st | 2004-2006 | 46-4510 | 66-6710 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Eitan Herzog | Gold-Green-Oceanic coalition | +4/+510 |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | NUP | YCA | IL11 | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
40th | 2002-2004 | 45-4611 | 68-49/49-6711 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0-18/18-011 | 5 | 0 | Naor Hillel (January 2000 - June 2002) Ariel Halevi (June 2002 - January 2004) |
Gold-Silver coalition (January 2002 - June 2002)/ Various coalition majorities (June 2002 - February 2003)/ Gold-Metallic-White coalition (February 2003 - January 2004)11 |
See Whirlwind Knesset of 2002 |
Knesset | Years | Knesset | President | Governing Majority Party | Margin of Majority Control | ||||||||||
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RCP | CLP | TA | GP | YLP | NUP | YCA | Ind. | Vacan cies | |||||||
39th | 2000-2002 | 41 | 71 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | Noar Hillel | Gold-Silver-Pale-Green-Oceanic-White coalition | +42 |
Footnotes
1. The Alternative for Yisrael split off from the Constitutional Liberal Party on November 7, 2019, at the end of the 48th term of Knesset and about two months from the 2020 general elections. 10 sitting Con-Lib MKs defected to the new party.
2. Torah Achdus neither sat in the opposition nor had a supply and confidence agreement with the ruling Conservatives.
3. The smaller Green Party and Yisraeli Labor Party merged together on February 8th, 2012, three weeks after the 2012 elections, combining their 4 seats (3 Greens, 1 Labor Party).
4. The Action Yisrael party was formed on May 24th, 2009, in advance of the 2010 elections.
5. The YCA was found to have illegal ties to anti-Yisrael terrorist groups the Christian Defense League and the Free Yarden Valley Catholic Front in the aftermath of the 2011 Yericho riots. Its MKs were arrested by the YeMep and the party banned under the Domestic Subversive Organizations Act before the 2012 elections.
6. None of the vacancies resulted in a change of partisan affiliation. All the seats were filled by persons of the same party.
7. Vice-President Oren Waltenstein would often be required to stay on premises for Knesset votes to cast the deciding vote due to the evenly-split Knesset between HRM Government led by the Con-Lib-Green-Labor-YCA-Indep. coalition (71) and HRM Opposition of the Conservatives and their allies the Torah Achdus party (71).
8. The Northern League, although in existence since 1974, had no won any seats since the 1980s. The party had a leadership election in February 14th, 2006, and elected David Touro as party chairman. Touro rebranded the party as "far right lite" and moderated the more extreme stances of the party as well as recruited credible right-wing activists and buildt needed campaign infrastructure in the Yarden River Valley to field successful candidates for the next election cycle.
9. The right-wing National Union merged with the Royalist Conservatives several months before the 2006 elections.
10. Avigdor Korvo, an former Con-Lib MK from Ashkelon who had defected to the Conservatives during the Whirlwind Knesset of 2002, switched back several days after the election from Conservative to Con-Lib and was given a prominent role on the Knesset Appropriations Committee.
11. In March 2002, the Hillel corruption allegations emerged. Over the next couple of months, more accusations and evidence surfaced, which led to calls for Hillel to resign. Defiant, Hillel initially refused, doubling down on his protestations of innocence. In April 2002, Con-Lib MK Avigdor Korvo defected to the Conservatives, citing Hillel's corruption and refusal to be held accountable. By May, a majority of the Con-Lib MKs agreed to bring a vote of no confidence and draft up articles of impeachment in cooperation with the Conservatives. In early June 2002, Hillel and Torah Achdus leader and MK Nechemia Valkenburger, who was accused of being in league with Hillel on various charges, resigned. Ariel Halevi, the registered Independent vice-president, became President. Fearing his centrist tendencies and lack of formal affiliation with the party, a group of left-wing Con-Lib MKs approached Halevi and demanded he become a Con-Lib to "comfortably" head the party. Halevi refused. Days after taking over, he fired scores of close Hillel confidantes and aides, replacing them with a mix of more moderate Con-Libs, non-partisans, and moderate Conservatives, much to the party establishment's shock. As detailed in the Whirlwind Knesset of 2002, a faction of Halevi-supporting Con-Libs broke with their Knesset leadership and formed the Independent Liberals. The leftist third parties refused to work with Halevi, so he stitched together a coalition of Independent Liberals and right-wing parties. That, too, fell apart after awhile. In 8 months, the Knesset had had three majorities rise and fall. In mid-2003, after Halevi announced he was not running for re-election, he and the Con-Lib establishment negotiated a deal towards the end of his term to make amends and the fractured Knesset Con-Libs reunited.