Yemenite Association

Yemenite Association

The Yemenite Association ( _he. התאחדות התימנים, "Hita'ahdot HaTeimanim") was a political party in Israel.

History

The party was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1920. It took part in Israel's first elections in 1949, crossing the electoral threshold by just 53 votes, and winning one seat, which was taken by Zecharia Glosca.

Despite the influx of Yemenite Jews to the country precipitated by Operation Magic Carpet, a mass airlift of Jews into Israel from Yemen in 1949-50, the party failed to attract new voters and again won only one seat in the 1951 elections, though this time the electoral threshold was beaten by over a thousand votes. The party's seat was taken by Shimon Garidi.

On 10 September 1951 the party was merged into the General Zionists. On 26 June 1955 Garidi announced that he had seceded from the General Zionists to reform the party, but the move was not recognised by the house committee.

The party fought the 1955 elections independently, but did not win a seat.

A later merger of the General Zionists and the Progressive Party led to the formation of the Liberal Party, which became the third largest in the Knesset in the 1961 elections. The Liberal Party then merged with Herut to form Gahal, which eventually became Likud.

External links

* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=92 Party history] Knesset website


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