Rafi (political party)
| Chairman | David Ben-Gurion |
|---|---|
| Founded | 14 July 1965 |
| Dissolved | 23 January 1968 |
| Split from | Mapai |
| Merged into | Israeli Labor Party |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Ideology | Secularism, Social democracy Social liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | Blue |
| Most MKs | 10 (1965) |
| Election symbol | |
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Rafi (Hebrew: רַפִ"י, an acronym for Reshimat Poalei Yisrael (Hebrew: רְשִׁימָת פּוֹעַלֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל), lit. Israeli Workers List) was a Center-left political party in Israel, founded by former Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion in 1965. In 1968 it was one of three parties that merged to form the Israeli Labor Party.
Rafi was founded on 14 July 1965 when David Ben-Gurion led a breakaway of eight MKs from Mapai, the ruling party, taking with him Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Chaim Herzog, and Teddy Kollek, among others. The split had two main causes; the first was the disagreements within Mapai over the Lavon Affair; Ben-Gurion did not agree to declaring Lavon innocent without judicial investigation committee. The second was the formation of the Labor Alignment by an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda. The new party's establishment, a merger of two of the largest left-wing parties, was intended to delay planned reforms to the electoral system (i.e. to change from proportional representation to a constituency-based system) that were important to Ben-Gurion.
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