Brothers, friends, workers, pensioners — a party for every affiliation
The complete list of the 34 parties contesting the elections for the 19th Knesset
Hope springs if not eternal then at least until January 22 for the 34 political parties contesting the elections for the 19th Knesset, with parties already in the parliament eager to boost their current standing and the rest dreaming of passing the electoral threshold for the first time.
Of the 14 parties serving in the Knesset now, one — Ehud Barak’s Independence Party — will not participate in the January elections, while another — Yisrael Beytenu — will run jointly with Likud. Am Shalem, led by outcast Shas MK Haim Amsalem — is the party of a current member of Knesset trying to remain in parliament while striking out on his own.
That leaves 21 “outsiders” vying for position in the 120-seat parliament. Most of these, including the Greens, Green Leaf, The Power to Influence, The Israelis and Eternal Covenant for the Redemption of Israel, have campaigned in previous elections without earning any seats in the Knesset. Some are reincarnations of earlier parties with similar aims — as in the case of The Generation That Built the Country, which is attempting to recapture the mandates that Gil, the Pensioners party, briefly held. A few parties, such as Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua (The Movement,) are entirely new.
The complete list of parties, as authorized by the Central Elections Committee on Thursday night:
1. Light
2. We Are Brothers
3. New Land
4. Balad
5. Eternal Covenant for the Redemption of Israel
6. The Generation That Built the Country
7. Da’am — The Workers Party
8. Jewish Home
9. The Greens and the Young
10. The Israelis
11. Likud-Yisrael Beytenu
12. Labor
13. The Pirates
14. Hatnua (The Movement)
15. The Hope for Change
16. Hadash
17. Living in Dignity
18. United Torah Judaism
19. Yesh Atid
20. We Are All Friends
21. The Power to Influence
22. The Legacy of the Forefathers
23. The Economy Party
24. Meretz
25. The Progressive Liberal-Democratic Party
26. Eternity
27. Power to Israel
28. Green Leaf
29. Am Shalem
30. One Future
31. Social Justice
32. Kadima
33. The United Arab List
34. Shas
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