Herut

Herut
חֵרוּת
LeaderMenachem Begin (1948–1951)
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (acting 1951-1952)
Menachem Begin (1952-1983) Yitzhak Shamir (1983–1988)
Founded15 June 1948
Dissolved1988
Merged intoLikud
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
NewspaperHerut
IdeologyNational conservatism
Revisionist Zionism
Political positionRight-wing
National affiliationGahal (1965–1973)
Likud (1973–1988)
Most MKs28 (1981, 1984)
Election symbol
Herut MKs Uri Zvi Greenberg, Esther Raziel Naor, and Menachem Begin, at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem

Herut (Hebrew: חֵרוּת, lit.'Freedom') was the major conservative nationalist[1] political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.

  1. ^ Dan Horowitz; Moshe Lissak (1 February 2012). Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel. SUNY Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-4384-0708-1.