Herut – The National Movement
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Herut – The National Movement
חרות – התנועה הלאומית |
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| Leader |
Michael Kleiner Benny Begin |
| Founded | 23 February 1999 |
| Split from | Likud |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv |
| Ideology | Revisionist Zionism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Alliance | National Union (1999–2000) |
| Most MKs | 3 (1999) |
| Fewest MKs | 1 (1999–2003) |
| Election symbol | |
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Herut – The National Movement (Hebrew: חרות – התנועה הלאומית, Herut – HaTnu'a HaLeumit), commonly known as just Herut (חרות), was a minor right-wing political party in Israel. Though it sees itself as the ideological successor to the historical Herut party (which merged into Likud) it is a new and separate party. It participated in the 1999, 2003 and 2006 elections.
The party was formed on 23 February 1999 when Benny Begin, Michael Kleiner and David Re'em broke away from Likud during the fourteenth Knesset. The breakaway was the result of disagreements with Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu over the Wye River Memorandum and the , which had ceded land to the Palestinians. Though not an MK at the time, the new party was also backed by former Prime Minister and Herut leader, Yitzhak Shamir.
Herut participated in the 1999 elections as part of the National Union, a right-wing alliance of itself, Moledet and Tkuma with Begin at its head. In the simultaneous election for Prime Minister, Begin had originally planned to stand, but dropped out three days before the election to avoid splitting the right-wing vote between himself and Netanyahu (though it didn't help, as Netanyahu lost to Ehud Barak by more than 12%). In the Knesset election, the National Union won only 3% of the vote and four seats. The party's poor performance led to Begin resigning as head of the party and retiring from politics before the Knesset term began, and Herut's one allocated seat was taken by Kleiner.
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