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National Religious Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The rise of a new party among the religious Zionist right (as opposed to the largely secular National Union leadership) is also endangering the survival of the Mafdal in the Knesset today after more than a half-century as a key partner in almost every government. Critism from religious parties such as Shas and Agudat Israel scorn Mafdal for having been in the governing coalition with an ultra-secular party like Shinui (which is often described as "anti-religious") and for not doing enough to keep the Jewish character of Israel. Mafdal is the patron of most of the national religious schools (חינוך ממלכתי-דתי), which teach both Judaism and general mandatory educational subjects such as mathematics, English, literature, physics, biology etc. It sponsors some pre-military schools that provide higher education to future IDF officers and commanders. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mafdal   (3073 words)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News National Religious Party leader MK Eitam has given a surprise order to convene the party's Central Committee within two weeks, for a fateful decision on whether to quit the government or not. National Religious Party leader MK Effie Eitam has given a surprise order to convene the party's Central Committee within two weeks. In response to Eitam's decision to convene the party faithful, Orlev said, "I am happy that NRP Chairman Effie Eitam recognizes the existence of the Committee, and has remembered, three months late, that this is the body that must decide whether the party remains in the government or not. www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=68406   (462 words)

AP881102-0058 ``We will, with the help of God, first and foremost improve the quality of life for the ultra-Orthodox community,'' said Avraham Ravitz, leader of the new religious party Torah Flag, which won two seats in the Knesset, or parliament. Four tiny religious parties were the surprise winners in Israel's election, securing enough votes to tip the scales of power and determine who heads the next coalition government. Even though the four parties had a net gain of six seats, the increase in the religious bloc was only four seats, from 14 to 18, because two tiny religious factions merged with other parties. ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/big/docs/AP881102-0058   (512 words)

"Mazel Tov, Barak But We Need to Pray" - July 18, 1999 - Thinking Aloud - Rabbi Rafael G. Grossman True, Shaul Yahalom of the National Religious Party was designated Deputy Minister of Education with a specific responsibility for the schools of the religious. The presence of Shas along with the National Religious Party and the United Torah Judaism Party will make it impossible for the Barak government to in any way satisfy those American Jews whose principle issue in Israel is pluralism and the recognition of conversions performed by non-Orthodox Rabbis in Israel. One religious party might force a merger of One Israel and Meretz on the left. www.ou.org /torah/grossman/1999/071899.htm   (915 words)

NRP - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/ NRP - National Religious Party - (in Hebrew "Mafdal - Mifleget haPoalim Dati-Leumi meaning National Religious Workers Party) - Orthodox Jewish Zionist party that was originally socialist and founded several Kibbutzim. In the 1960s, the party began to break with its traditional ideology under the influence of Gush Emunim. NRP became the mainstay of the "Greater Israel" - Eretz Yisrael Hashleimah - policy of settling the West Bank and Gaza strip, areas occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. www.zionism-israel.com /dic/NRP.htm   (441 words)

Israel - National Religious Party The National Religious Party, Israel's largest religious party, resulted in 1956 from the merger of its two historical antecedents, Mizrahi (Spiritual Center) and HaPoel HaMizrahi (Spiritual Center Worker). In 1986 Hammer succeeded long-time member Yosef Burg as minister of religious affairs in the National Unity Government. As a result of these steps, the NRP attained greater ideological homogeneity and competed with Tehiya and Kach for the electoral support of the right-wing ultranationalist religious community. countrystudies.us /israel/98.htm   (575 words)

0,7340,L-3050116,00.html National Religious Party members expressed their fury over Eitam and Levy’s decision to split from the faction, and recalled words spoken by Levy himself in opposition to a split in 1999. National Religious Party Knesset Members Effie Eitam and Yitzhak Levy held the new faction’s first convention today, with hundreds of activists in attendance. National Union Chairman Benny Elon, meanwhile, called on the new faction to join his party, and said “Sharon’s treachery…requires the entire Zionist religious camp and Land of Israel loyalists to come under one roof, that of the National Union.” www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3050116,00.html   (320 words)

The Jerusalem Post - Elections 1999 The National Religious Party was a member of all the governments except briefly that of Rabin in 1974 and his second government in 1992-95. The NRP was considered politically moderate and concentrated on such issues as education until after the Yom Kippur War, when the Greater Land of Israel's messianic forces within it gained the upper hand and took the party progressively to the extreme Right. The haredi parties are keenly concerned with receiving financial benefits from the state for their own institutions and preserving (or even expanding) the religious status quo. www.umich.edu /~proflame/neh/thereligious.shtml   (420 words)

israelinsider: politics: Government tilts to the right with addition of new ministers The national unity government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon increased its Knesset majority as the National Religious Party and Gesher voted to join the coalition. Pressure is being applied on party chairman Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer to convene the central Labor committee to approve the decision to bolt the government. Channel Two television reported yesterday that party members Yossi Beilin, Burg, MK Efi Oshaya, and MK Colette Avital were scheduled to meet today with Peres to ask him to join their demand to leave the coalition, but the meeting was canceled when word of it was made public. www.israelinsider.com /channels/politics/articles/pol_0126.htm   (878 words)

The Imminent Death Of Israel's National Religious Party Non-religious nationalists have no reason to side with the NRP when there is the National Union party, a group of nationalists, most of whom are religious but whose leaders have kept religion inside their own homes and have not used rabbis to preach that electing its slate of MKs fulfills God's will. Eitam and Levy represent the hard-line religious faithful who fought the expulsion tooth and nail, while the remnants of the NRP tried to be the link between the Orthodox public and the traditional and secular sectors. The NRP managed to hold on to its six seats, mainly to the credit of Gila Finkelstein, whose struggle for the rights of women proved there are other public issues besides nationalism and yeshivas. www.thejewishpress.com /news_article.asp?article=5694   (860 words)

FORWARD : FacesForward It is among religious Israelis who reach out to their secular neighbors that some observers and politicians see a promising future for the National Religious Party. Observers question whether the party is ready to throw its full support behind Finkelstein's progressive moves, but if determination and conviction are indicators, she is on her way to a glorious political career. Cases of agunot — "chained women" whose husbands refuse them a religious divorce — can be held up for years. www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.09.19/faces.html   (1004 words)

0,7340,L-3020735,00.html National Religious Party (also known by the Hebrew acronym "Mafdal") identifies itself with religious Zionism and is affiliated with the settler movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The main founders of the NRP were Doctor Josef Burg (father of former Labor Knesset Member Avraham Burg) and Haim Moshe Shapira, who focused the party’s activities on religious matters and building a Jewish society rather than a secular one. Established in 1956 with the merger of religious entities supportive of the Zionist enterprise, the NRP traces its ideological roots to Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first chief rabbi of Palestine and originator of religious Zionist theories. www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3020735,00.html   (260 words)

Israel’s Jewish religious groups have a complicated history and structure The NRP suffered a split before the 1999 elections, with several important members, notably Bennie Begin, son of the former prime minister, forming their own party, the National Unity Party. Meretz, a party promoting secularity, ran under the slogan “To be free in our land.”  The line is taken from the national anthem, and in Meretz’ use has the connotation of free from the rule of religion. The most liberal religious party is Meimad, and it joined with Barak’s One Israel. www.sscnet.ucla.edu /polisci/faculty/boneill/posters/ashken.htm   (910 words)

IsraelVotes Demo Political Parties and Platforms National Religious Party (NRP) The party initially joined Ehud Barak's government in 1996, yet after Ehud Barak's proposed territorial concessions to the Palestinians were announced, the Mafdal left the government. Supports the religious status quo and opposes separation of religion and state. The Mafdal is largely responsible for the fact that parents can choose to send their children to state-funded religious schools. www.israelvotes.com /demo/platforms_mafdal.html   (554 words)

The Religious-Secular Divide in Israeli Politics It was a coalition between parties close to one another, a nationalist party (Likud) and a national religious one (NRP, the National Religious party). Shas (the Sephardi religious party) and Agudat Yisrael (AY, the ultraorthodox party) are in the center in terms of the left-right divide on foreign policy; they lie opposite to Labor, the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and the two Arab parties on the horizontal axis. Religious Zionism, which served as a bond between the two camps, by changing its attitudes on foreign policy and adopting some of the maxims of ultraorthodoxy, abandoned its traditional role of a bridge between traditionalism and modernity. www.mepc.org /public_asp/journal_vol6/9906_sandler.asp   (4498 words)

zhammer.txt When he first appeared on the National Religious Party scene, the NRP was run by European-born politicians whose main objective was to bend with the prevailing political winds blown by the omnipotent Labor Party, and to somehow win concessions for various religious demands. He was, significantly, the first sabra NRP leader and he paved the way for a party more sure of itself in society's mainstream, less of a special interest group, less for sale, more nationalistic, and extremely vocal on issues far removed from local religious council politics. The NRP was then far more religious and far less nationalistic. www.jr.co.il /articles/zhammer.txt   (1357 words)

Indian National Congress Party: The President of the Indian National Congress is in effect the party's national leader, head of the organization, head of the Working Committee and all chief Congress committees, chief spokesman and the Congress choice to become the Prime Minister of India. After the murder of Gandhi in 1948 and the death of Sardar Patel in 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru was the sole remaining iconic national leader, and soon the situation became so that Nehru was key to the political potency and future of the Congress. The party is currently the chief member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition government supported by the Left Front. wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Indian_National_Congress_Party   (2104 words)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News Eitam and Levy recently announced that they were signing a type of merger deal between the NRP and the National Union, enabling the two parties to run as one large religious-Zionist bloc in the next national election. I call upon all of us to maintain unity in the national-religious camp, which is what we need now. I do not rule out the idea of forming a large bloc with the National Union, but I have asked for a committee to be formed, of Eitam, Orlev and a third, jointly-agreed person, to decide if and under what conditions we should join a religious-Zionist bloc... www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=76315   (485 words)

AllRefer.com - Israel - Appendix B -- Israel Israeli Information Resource From the founding of the state in 1948 to 1977, the NRP (or its predecessors) was the ally of the Labor Party (or its predecessors) in forming Labor-led coalition governments; in return the NRP was awarded control of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Established in 1902 as an Orthodox religious Zionist party. Nevertheless, Mapai became the dominant party in the Yishuv and later in Israel; after 1968 it was the dominant faction in the Labor Party. reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/israel/israel196.html   (1855 words)

USATODAY.com - Sharon pushes for win as vote on Gaza plan nears A key party in Sharon's coalition — the pro-settler National Religious Party — said Tuesday it will quit within two weeks if the parliament vote is not accompanied by a pledge to hold a national referendum in coming months. It's a kind of treason," said Effie Eitam of the National Religious Party. Sharon was hoping for a strong victory to silence opponents' demand to hold a national referendum on the plan. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-10-26-mideast_x.htm   (1062 words)

katif.net in English It would appear that for the National Religious Party secular Jews are good only at the ballot box, but not for playing the democratic game inside their party (something which happens there about once every twelve years). In the last elections he voted for the National Religious Party because he was impressed with the ideas of these people with the crocheted yarmulkes. If the National Religious Party wants to advance and adopt the vocabulary of serious adults, it must first of all open its doors wide and invited in a greater variety of people who believe in its message. english.katif.net /index.php?id=568%E2%8A%82=2   (475 words)

Sharon finally forges coalition to run Israel / 2 of the parties strongly oppose Palestinian state But in a move that belies his words, he has handed the Housing Ministry, which oversees settlement building, to the pro-settler National Religious Party. The turbaned spiritual leader of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, denounced Sharon in characteristically colorful language as the "prime minister of garbage cans" for excluding his party, while Shas leader Eli Yishai accused the prime minister of betraying the religious and weaker sector of society. Now, his party is powerfully positioned to challenge the strict criteria that Shas has used in the past to define who is regarded as a Jew in the eyes of the state and therefore entitled to receive citizenship. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/27/MN128772.DTL   (1117 words)

israelinsider: politics: National Religious Party to stay in Sharon government--for the moment National Religious Party to stay in Sharon government--for the moment By a 66-34% margin in a secret ballot, the NRP central committee voted to remain in the government coalition of Ariel Sharon, but conditioned its remaining inside on the government holding a national referendum before a Knesset decision on evacuating settlements. Levy said that he had consulted the Mordechai Eliyahu, the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi and the party's spiritual leader, who decreed that the NRP must quit the coalition immediately after authorization of compensation payments to settlers, irrespective of the holding of a disengagement referendum on. web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/4122.htm   (450 words)

AP881103-0070 The religious party supports annexing the territories and increasing Jewish settlements, and opposes Labor's plan to hold peace talks with Arab states within an international conference. Labor and Likud need the support of the religious parties, kingmakers despite their small size, to control a majority of seats in parliament. The Orthodox religious parties won 18 seats, an increase of four. ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/big/docs/AP881103-0070   (723 words)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News "Not only I, but many people in the religious-Zionist camp feel that the National Religious Party no longer represents them... Asked why he would not join an existing religious party such as Tekumah, instead of starting a new body, the rabbi responded, "Tekumah has very good people, and I love and respect them, but it has a different problem. As I explained before, a party must be religious, just as the educator of a class must be religious." www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=70332   (445 words)

National Alliance - religious cults, sects and movements The National Alliance is a neo-nazi, white supremacy organization founded by former American Nazi Party officer, the late Dr. According to the ADL, the National Alliance is the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States. His organization, the National Alliance (23 chapters in 15 states), is not a hate group, he insists. www.countercult.com /n07.html   (762 words)

Analysis of the Israeli 1999 Elections Not all Arabs voted for Arab parties, or Sephardic Jews for Shas, or Soviet immigrants for the Yisrael b'Aliya or Yisrael Beiteinu parties, or modern Orthodox voters for the National Religious party, or secular Ashkenazic Israelis for Shinui or Meretz. Shas' rise and the religious parties: Shas, a Sephardic (overwhelmingly ethnic Moroccan) religious party, was a big gainer in seats--but not necessarily influence--from the elections. The secular factor: As a reaction to the growth in the religious parties' power, a new single-issue secular party, Shinui, obtained 6 seats. www.biu.ac.il /SOC/besa/meria/research-g/israeli-elections.html   (3328 words)

TheRaphi.com - Why No Nationalist Camp Against the advice of certain wholehearted nationalists, National Union (consisting of Israel Beiteinu, Moledet, and Tekuma) joined the government, as did the National Religious Party (NRP), even though Sharon was on record as favoring a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza—thus violating Israel’s territorial integrity. Clearly, both National Union and the National Religious Party betrayed their voters and split the nationalist camp by joining the Sharon government. The NRP compromised itself even further, for the Sharon-led coalition included the anti-religious Shinui Party, which was given control of the all-important Ministry of Justice and as the Ministry of Internal Affairs. www.theraphi.com /ppe/wnnc.html   (689 words)

New Internationalist: Effie Eitam - Worldbeaters - National Religious Party, Israel - Brief Article It is little wonder that he and the rest of the National Religious Party feel comfortable in joining Sharon's 'national unity' Government. One of the 'guys' Avnery has in mind is former Israeli Defence Force General Effie Eitam, leader of the National Religious Party, who recently joined the Sharon Government. National Religious Party (Israel) / Officials and employees www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_2002_June/ai_88267999   (985 words)

Bye-bye, religious parties (in Israel) The National Religious Party, by contrast, was founded in 1956 specifically to apply spiritual values to governing a modern nation-state. Ironically, the one religious party whose agenda had a society-wide reach then allowed a narrow issue – support for the settlement movement – to overshadow its spiritual goals. They agreed that the era of religious political parties in Israel was coming to a close, that mixing politics and Judaism had been detrimental to civil society, and that an alternative way had to be found to instill Jewish cultural values into the body politic. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1300304/posts   (1140 words)

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