Progressive Party (Israel)
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Progressive Party
מפלגה פרוגרסיבית |
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| Leader | Pinchas Rosen |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 8 May 1961 |
| Merger of | New Aliyah Party and HaOved HaTzioni |
| Merged into | Liberal Party |
| Newspaper | Zmanim |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Social liberalism Progressivism Secularism |
| Political position | Center |
| Most MKs | 6 (1959–1961) |
| Fewest MKs | 4 (1951–1955) |
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The Progressive Party (Hebrew: מִפְלָגָה פְּרוֹגְרֶסִיבִית, Miflaga Progresivit) was a political party in Israel.
The Progressive Party was a liberal party, most of whose founders came from the ranks of the New Aliyah Party and HaOved HaTzioni, which had been active prior to independence. It consisted primarily of immigrants from Central Europe.
It was formed by three groups: First, and most numerous, was the mostly Central European, middle class New Aliyah Party, which generally took a liberal position on social issues. Second was HaOved HaTzioni, a non-socialist labor group in the Histadrut that rejected the idea of class struggle. Last was "group A" of the General Zionists, which was made up of artisans, small farmers, and members of the liberal professions, and which unlike "group B" was left of center and oriented toward the Histadrut. The Progressives favored private investment and shifting control over essential services and welfare functions from the Histadrut to the state. Although they were not socialists, they were intellectually sympathetic to socialist aspirations and open to cooperating with Mapai in a coalition government.
In the 1949 elections the party gained five seats, with Idov Cohen, Yeshayahu Forder, Avraham Granot, Yizhar Harari and Pinchas Rosen taking their place as Members of the Knesset (MKs). They joined the government as a coalition partner of David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, and were members of both the first and second governments.
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