Brit Olam

Brit Olam (Hebrew: ברית עולם, "World Alliance") is a political party in Israel

Background and ideology

Brit Olam is joint Jewish-Arab party founded by Ofer Lifschitz in 2006. It stands for the foundation of a Palestinan state, separation of church and state, raising the minimum wage and improving the education system. It also wants to improve relations between Jews and Israeli Arabs and emphasises the need for social justice and cohesion.

In its agenda, the party states its objectives are:
*To go with integrity, with courage and with the head held high toward the future.
*To respect the place of the man as a man, without differentiation of religion, race or gender.
*To learn and to teach the similar between the human beings in order to create appropriate heritage for our children.
*To build and to base an affirmative economy that focuses in the man, in his health, in his happiness, in his education, in his livelihood and in his welfare.
*To implement affirmative action and equality of opportunities to women and to all the communities that suffer from discrimination.
*To develop economic-industrial, agriculturist, urban and rural way of life - which guard on the quality of the environment and operating for her enhancement.
*To design way of thinking that sanctify the peace, the social responsibility, the personal selfhood and the freedom of each and every one of us.
*Brit Olam believes in people, therefore we will do as much as we can to develop the human fortune in the State of Israel.
*The Ten Commandments are the moral basis of Brit Olam movement.

Elections

The party ran for the 2006 elections with Lifschitz heading its list. However, they won only 2,011 votes (0.06%), far below the 2% electoral threshold.