Herut חֵרוּת | |
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Leader | Menachem Begin (1948–1951) Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (acting 1951-1952) Menachem Begin (1952-1983) Yitzhak Shamir (1983–1988) |
Founded | 15 June 1948 |
Dissolved | 1988 |
Merged into | Likud |
Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Newspaper | Herut |
Ideology | National conservatism Revisionist Zionism |
Political position | Right-wing |
National affiliation | Gahal (1965–1973) Likud (1973–1988) |
Most MKs | 28 (1981, 1984) |
Election symbol | |
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.