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	Meimad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meimad (מפלגת מימד Hebrew acronym meaning "Jewish State, Democratic State") is a left-leaning religious Zionist political party in Israel, founded in 1999, and based on the ideology of the Meimad movement, founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital.
		It advocates the inclusion of religious studies in the main curriculum of Israel's public schools, and encourages the use of rabbinical courts in addition to civil courts.
		Meimad ran together with the Labor party in the 2006 elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meimad (227 words)

	Meimad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Established in 1988 as a religious Zionist alternative to the National Religious Party (NRP), Meimad (Dimensions - Movements of the Religious Center) was discouraged by the NRP’s increasingly right-wing positions on the peace process and security matters.
		Meimad hopes to incorporate Orthodox religious practice in Israeli public life, but does not want to do so by restrictive legislation.
		Meimad maintains that peace between Israelis and Arabs is possible and that Israel can negotiate land for peace because of the concept of pikuach nefesh, which states that saving a soul is more important.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Politics/Meimad.html (101 words)

	Welcome to the Jewish Independent
		Meimad was founded in 1988 and first elected a representative in 1999, seeking a middle ground between the often irreconcilable secular and religious segments of Israeli society.
		He describes Meimad, which is part of the One Israel coalition government, as a religious party, but carefully explains the differences between his vision and that of others, such as the National Religious party.
		Meimad would like to see strictly commercial establishments remain closed on Shabbat, but would allow entertainment venues, such as theatres, to open for the enjoyment of those who would choose to see a film on the Sabbath.
	www.jewishbulletin.ca /Archives/Oct02/archives02Oct18-02.html (1014 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: Beyond the Settler Movement
		Meimad was established in 1988, and in 1999 it became a political party.
		Meimad was founded by Rabbi Yehuda Amital, the head of Yeshivat Har Etzion, a yeshiva in Gush Etzion, a block of West Bank settlements.
		Meimad does, however, believe in the importance of retaining the Jewish character of Israel, insisting that democracy is achievable in this context.
	www.myjewishlearning.org /ideas_belief/LandIsrael/modern_landisrael/ReligiousZionism/ModerateReligiousZionism.htm (1002 words)

	Torah Community Connections \| News
		Meimad is currently the only remaining partner of Labor in the One Israel party.
		Meimad's future participation in the party, however, is in question as a number of Labor party leaders favor the dissolution of One Israel in light of the recent departure of David Levy's Gesher Party.
		Meimad leaders also feel that some of their concerns have been ignored by One Israel.
	www.moreshet.net /oldsite/news/13-8-00/meimad.htm (204 words)

	Meimad - Orthodoxes Judentum für den Friedensprozess
		Meimad, fully aware of the risks involved, and in spite of the painfully high price to pay, supports and continues to support the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
		At the same time, Meimad is equally aware of the character of Israel's partner in the peace process, and we insist that the Government be uncompromising in demanding full and absolute Palestinian adherence to every detail of the agreement, for nothing less will assure its successful implementation.
		Meimad views with utmost importance the formation of principles regarding the permanent accord which shall ensure the security of Israel, enable the Jewish people to realize the majority of its aspirations and national rights, bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and ensure co-existence and a lasting peace.
	www.hagalil.com /GuShalom/shonoth/meimad-1.htm (777 words)

	Meimad - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meimad is a left-leaning religious political party in Israel, founded in 1988.
		Meimad is the transliteration of a Hebrew acronym meaning "Jewish State, Democratic State".
		You can find it there under the keyword Meimad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meimad)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meimadandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Meimad (266 words)

	The Head Heeb: Higher imperatives: the dilemma of religious peacemaking in the Middle East
		Instead, as the examples of Meimad and Shas have shown at various times, the imperative to control the Holy Land can be superseded by a higher imperative.
		Meimad's support for the peace process has thus been constant where Shas' had not, because it recognizes peace itself as a religious obligation.
		While Shas and Meimad have impacted the Israeli side of the conflict, their interpretations are potential models for the Palestinian side, because there are similar theological imperatives in Islam.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/027359.html (4065 words)

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		Meimad party officials slammed the NRP for the move, referring to it as a “sad day for religious Zionism.”
		Meimad head Michael Melchior said the joining together of the parties constitutes “Orlev’s complete surrender, from a moral and Torah-related standpoint, to the extremist and dazed Torah of Effie Eitam an company, which stems from NRP’s fear that it will not gain even one Knesset seat in the elections.”
		Meimad and Labor are also running as one list in the March 28 elections.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3213496,00.html (270 words)

	A mirage of normalcy
		According to the host, Rabbi Michael Melchior, MK and head of Meimad, this conference is an answer to the 500 rabbis who assembled recently, to declare government orders to dismantle outposts invalid according to Jewish law.
		But with all the importance of pursuing justice and equality, with all the passion that social issues generate, there is an element of escapism here: Meimad, and many other Israelis, have embarked on a kind of flight from a harsh and abnormal reality to an imaginary and illusory normalcy.
		For Meimad, it is relatively simple to recruit 500 "secular and religious scholars" to rally around the flag of social reform.
	www.israelblog.org /Articles/A_mirage_of_normalcy.html (652 words)

	j. - News Analysis: Attack by Hebron soldier widens Israel's religious-secular divide
		Meimad declined to cite details, but said in a statement that it was aware of such support in several yeshiva high schools, most of which are affiliated to the Bnei Akiva youth movement.
		Meimad called for an "emergency convention" of Orthodox educators to attempt to remedy the situation.
		The NRP, in reaction, blasted Meimad as "irresponsible" and accused it of deepening the divide by tarring the entire Orthodox-Zionist community with the sins of one man.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5248/edition_id/97/format/html/displaystory.html (737 words)

	Meimad - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Meimad (מפלגת מימד Hebrew acronym meaning "Jewish State, Democratic State") is a left-leaning religious Zionist political party in Israel, founded in 1999, and based on the ideology of the Meimad movement, founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital.
		This page was last modified 14:46, 28 March 2006.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Meimad contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Meimad (232 words)

	Information Division, Israel Foreign Ministry - Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Meimad National Council met this evening in the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv to ratify the agreement between Meimad and the Israel Labor Party that provides for Meimad's running in the upcoming Knesset elections with the Labor Party and the Gesher Party on the "One Israel" list.
		Meimad Party Chairman, Rav Yehuda Amital, stressed that the Meimad-One Israel agreement is more than just a return to the "historic alliance" of the early Labor Party and the National Religious Party of the first decades of the State.
		From Meimad's point of view, the educational impact of the agreement is tremendous.
	radiobergen.org /report/IR990313.htm (3610 words)

	j. - Larger-than-Labor ticket seeks Sephardi, religious votes
		According to the Israeli daily, these changes are included in the understanding drawn up between Labor and Meimad and would serve as the basis for a coalition agreement.
		Beilin, who negotiated the understanding with Meimad, was quoted by Ha'aretz as saying the changes in the status quo would require a coalition under Barak to pass several pieces of legislation.
		Meimad's accession is another feather in the Labor leader's cap.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/10736/format/html/displaystory.html (602 words)

	Meimad Web Site \| Brothers Walk Together – A Full Account of the Central Meimad Election Rally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		First, Meimad’s decision in recent years – stemming from its traditional religious outlook of love of one’s fellow and mutual responsibility – to address social concerns, in addition to national issues.
		Side by side sat the Rabbis of Meimad and Labor: Rabbi Yehuda Amital, founder and guide of Meimad, Luba Eliav a winner of the Israel Prize, (“the social Rabbi of the Labor Party,” in the words of Peretz), and former MK Rabbi Menahem Hacohen.
		Meimad Head, MK Rabbi Michael Melchior, addressed the social injustices in Israel, emphasizing that “the essence of the Jewish state is not measured in its number of kilometers – even though every kilometer is dear to it.
	english.meimad.org.il /ArticlePage.asp?ArticleId=96 (1587 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: Religious & Zionist
		Rabbi Yehudah Amital established Meimad in 1988 as a religious Zionist alternative to the right-wing Gush Emunim.
		Meimad believes that the Jewish values of peace and saving lives are more important than Jewish sovereignty over the entire biblical land of Israel.
		In addition, Meimad supports the idea of Israel as a Jewish and democratic country--a state that is Jewish in character but does not employ coercive religious legislation.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/LandIsrael/modern_landisrael/ReligiousZionism.htm (1123 words)

	The Review - Barak’s ‘One Israel’
		One Israel is a new electoral coalition of Labor, the Gesher party associated with former Likud Foreign Minister David Levy, and Meimad, a party that marries a religiously observant supporter base and dovish views on the peace process.
		Meimad receives one safe slot, one doubtful slot, and a promise that a Meimad leader who is not a Knesset member will be a cabinet minister.
		Meimad, it is also hoped, can attract some religious voters to Labor.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/1999/244/oneisrael.html (1343 words)

	The World According to Hobbes
		They are in fact the words of Meimad, the largely Orthodox political party that has joined with Labor in a common list of candidates for Israel's Knesset.
		Two of Meimad's leaders came visiting last week, and our conversation offered a useful reminder that Orthodoxy in Israel is not necessarily as dismal as it so often seems, not necessarily as anti-democratic or as benighted or as closed-minded as the actions of some of its leaders and their followers lead us to suppose.
		And the Meimad people are as determined that peace - specifically, the Oslo process and the prospect of territorial compromise - and deep commitment to halacha cannot be viewed as opposing positions.
	www.generationj.com /archive/politics/hobbes.html (811 words)

	Israel Religious Action Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sources in Meimad said that invocation of the term "desecration of the Holy Name" by politically moderate religious people demonstrates the gravity with which Meimad views the adoption of the Tal Commission's recommendations.
		Melchior promised the Council that he would raise the objections that were voiced at the meeting with the committee chaired by Science and Culture Minister Matan Vilnai, which was established to improve the terms of the bill by introducing affirmative action measures for draftees.
		The resolution added, "Meimad urges the creation of an alternative means that will broaden and deepen the social and community contribution of the Ultra-Orthodox public to the nation beyond its spiritual contribution.
	www.irac.org /article_e.asp?artid=305 (376 words)

	FactsOfIsrael.com - Democracy
		Under the leadership of Ehud Barak, Israel's previous prime minister, it redefined itself as "New Labor." It had 34 seats in the 14th Knesset (1996) and ran in the elections to the 15th Knesset in the framework of "One Israel" -- an alignment with Gesher and Meimad.
		Meimad is a dovish party which favors a modification of the religious status quo.
		In the elections to the 13th Knesset (1992) it failed to pass the 1.5% qualifying threshold.
	www.factsofisrael.com /en/democracy.htm (1572 words)

	New Israel Fund Administrative Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The organization was established by former members of the movement Meimad, after Meimad became a political organization.
		NIF began to support the movement Meimad in 1997.
		After it became a political organization in 1998, support was discontinued, and NIF began to support T’murot.
	www.nif.org /news/news.cfm?1250 (58 words)

	The Jerusalem Post - Elections 1999
		An attempt to elect representatives of a moderate national-religious party, Meimad, to the 13th Knesset failed, when the party did not pass the qualifying threshold.
		Meimad is trying again for the 15th Knesset.
		The haredi political camp is divided into two blocs: United Torah Judaism, which is made up of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel Hatora parties; the second is Shas, most of whose Sephardi supporters are traditional Jews of Islamic country origin.
	www.umich.edu /~proflame/neh/thereligious.shtml (420 words)

	Israel Elections
		The third member of the One Israel block, now the largest alliance in the Knesset with 27 seats, Meimad aims to marry traditional Judaism and democracy and Orthodox religious concerns with a commitment to the secular community's desire for reform.
		Meimad proposes a new covenant between religion and state which, among other things, provides increased Jewish education in both the general and religious school systems.
		The party also supports the continuation of the Oslo accords and improved health and social services regardless of economic status.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/events/israeli_elections/meimad.htm (101 words)

	Israel Religious Action Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		"One Israel," the umbrella list that Labor leader Ehud Barak is forming with David Levy's Gesher movement and the politically moderate religious movement Meimad is expected to advocate a cancellation of the religious status quo, an Israeli daily reported.
		According to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, these changes are included in the understanding drawn up between Labor and Meimad and would serve as the basis for a coalition agreement.
		The paper said the agreement would allow public transportation on the Jewish Sabbath, as determined by the local authorities, based on the needs and character of the population.
	www.irac.org /article_e.asp?artid=43 (265 words)

	Outpost, July-August 1998, p. 9
		The grant to Meimad was the 11th-largest grant out of the 72 grants that the Fund recently announced.
		The NIF made the grant to Meimad despite the NIF's own declared policy that "We have no affiliations and make no grants to political parties or to organizations which are controlled by political parties." Meimad competed in the 1988 Israeli
		Ray Hanania, former president of the Palestinian American Congress, claims that the PLO Covenant is no worse than "Israel's Declaration of Independence, which not only calls for the destruction of Palestine, but gloats about it." In fact, Israel's Declaration does not contain any references to destroying anything...
	www.afsi.org /OUTPOST/98JUL-AUG/julaug9.htm (506 words)

	Jerusalem Post: Labor-Meimad close to agreement@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		An agreement by which Meimad would run on the One Israel ticket with Labor is expected soon.
		Meimad leaders negotiated with Labor MK Yossi Beilin until 2:30 a.m.
		Meimad is asking for two safe slots near the...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:20536446&... (151 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Meimad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Meimad; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Meimad (351 words)

	Israel :: Evangelicals use clout to help Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Labor Party, the dominant left-of-center political party, and Meimad hold 19 seats in the Knesset.
		Labor is committed to a comprehensive peace with security in the Middle East.
		Meimad was established in 1988 as a spinoff of the National Religious Party.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /4478-Evangelicals_use_clout_to_help_Israel.html (1722 words)

	Noahidenews79
		The impetus behind the establishment of the movement is twofold: the real social distress, on one hand, and the distress of Melchior and his Meimad movement in the political arena, on the other.
		Even before the last elections, there was a bitter dispute in the party over partnership with Labor (Meimad is not part of the party but rather its partner in a parliamentary bloc), and many central members left after the decision to continue the partnership.
		They had long dreamed of Meimad's expansion beyond the borders of the religious public, but Melchior did not prepare for the expansion of the Meimad brand, but rather a new movement, which probably signals Meimad's demise.
	www.samliquidation.com /noahidenews79.htm (14634 words)

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