Agudat Israel of Israel
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Agudat Yisrael
אגודת ישראל |
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| Leader |
Ya'akov Litzman Yitzhak-Meir Levin Yehuda Meir Abramowicz Avraham Yosef Shapira Menachem Porush |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Newspaper | Hamodia |
| Ideology |
Torah, Torah Judaism, Haredi Judaism, Ashkenazi Haredim interests (usually Haredim from the Hasidic Judaism in Israel), Orthodox Halacha, Religious conservatism |
| Religion | Haredi Judaism |
| International affiliation | World Agudath Israel |
| Alliances |
United Religious Front (1949–51) Religious Torah Front (1955–60, 1973–77) United Torah Judaism (current) |
| Most MKs | 5 (1988) |
| Fewest MKs | 2 (1984) |
| Current MKs | 4 (Since 2013 Knesset Elections, as part of UTJ) |
| Election symbol | |
| ג | |
Agudat Yisrael (Hebrew: אֲגוּדָּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, lit. Union of Israel, also transliterated Agudath Israel, or Agudas Yisroel) is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish political party in Israel. It began as a political party representing ultra-Orthodox Jews in Poland, originating in the Agudath Israel movement in Upper Silesia. It later became the Party of the Haredi population of Israel. It was the umbrella party for many, though not all, Haredi Jews in Israel until the 1980s, as it had been during the British Mandate of Palestine.
Since the 1980s, it has become a predominately Hasidic party, though it often combines with the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Haredi party for elections and coalition-forming. When so combined, they are known together as United Torah Judaism.
When political Zionism began to emerge in the 1890s, and recruit supporters in Europe and America, it was opposed by many Orthodox Jews, who believed the Jewish state would emerge from divine intervention.World Agudath Israel was founded in Kattowitz, German Empire, (now Katowice, Poland) in 1912, with the purpose of providing an umbrella organization for observant Jews who opposed the Zionist movement.
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