Independent Liberals ליברלים עצמאיים | |
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| President | Pinchas Rosen Moshe Kol Gideon Hausner Yitzhak Artzi Zvi Nir |
| Founded | 16 March 1965 |
| Dissolved | 1992 |
| Split from | Liberal Party |
| Merged into | Labor Party |
| Ideology | Liberalism Social liberalism[1][2] Progressivism[1] Secularism[3] |
| Political position | Center |
| International affiliation | Liberal International[4] |
| Most MKs | 7 (1965) |
| Fewest MKs | 1 (1977–1981;1984-1988) |
| Election symbol | |
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The Independent Liberals (Hebrew: ליברלים עצמאיים, Libralim Atzma'im) were a political party in Israel that existed between 1965 and 1992.
- ^ a b Goldstein, Amir (Spring 2011). ""We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny"—The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Alternative". Israel Studies. 16 (1): 27, 32, 47, 49. doi:10.2979/isr.2011.16.1.26. S2CID 143487617.
Thus, the PP continued to represent mostly white collar and government workers, intellectuals, and the labor intelligentsia, all of whom favored the social liberalism, broadly-based universal views, and social and religious pluralism that the party stood for.4(27); Kol wrote to Goldmann...: 'But the party must be founded on a clear ideological basis, and no such basis exists between our progressive humanistic liberalism and Herut.'20(32); Kol emphasized that, 'The Herut Movement and social liberalism cannot dwell together in the same house.'(47); The PP, renamed the 'Independent Liberal Party,' resumed its progressive activity by trying to influence government policy—even if only marginally—from within the Labor camp, and affiliating itself with the ruling party.(49)
- ^ "Translations on Near East and North Africa, No. 1635: Background to May 1977 General Elections". U.S. Joint Publications Research Service (68874): 13. 4 April 1977.
The liberalism of Independent Liberals is in the spirit of the social humanism of the 20th Century.
- ^ Ervin Birnbaum (1970). The Politics of Compromise: State and Religion in Israel. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 66. ISBN 08386-7567-0.
The ILP is strongly secularist and is a staunch foe of religious encroachment and domination in the country.
- ^ Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 9. 2007. p. 771.
The Independent Liberal Party was affiliated with the Liberal International. In the elections to the Eleventh Knesset in 1984 the Independent Liberals ran within the Alignment list, and its representative, Yitzhak Arzi was elected. Towards the end of the Eleventh Knesset Arzi left the Alignment and joined the Shinui parliamentary group. Towards the end of the 1980s the Independent Liberals ceased to exist.