Israel Resilience Party

Israel Resilience Party
חוסן לישראל‎
LeaderBenny Gantz
Founded27 December 2018
IdeologyLiberal Zionism[1][2]
Political positionCentre[3][4][5]
National affiliationBlue & White (2019–2022)
National Unity (2022–)
Colours  Woodland green
SloganIsrael before everything[6]
Knesset
6 / 120
Website
bg19.co.il

Blue and White Israel Resilience Party (Hebrew: כחול לבן חוסן לישראל, romanized: Kahol Lavan Hosen LeYisrael, lit. 'Blue and White Resilience for Israel')[7] is a centrist, liberal Zionist political party in Israel founded in December 2018 by Benny Gantz, former Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.

The party first ran in the April 2019 Knesset elections,[8] as part of the Blue and White alliance. In the 2022 Knesset elections the party ran as part of the National Unity alliance.

In general, the Israel Resilience Party is mainly regarded as a centrist party; however, it has also been evaluated as "centre-right"[9] or "centre-left".[10]

  1. ^ Bishara, Hakim (14 December 2020). "Opposition Mounts Against Proposed Appointment of Far-right Chairman to Israeli Holocaust Museum". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 26 March 2024. the liberal Zionist Blue and White party, headed by Defence Minister Benny Gantz, the son of Holocaust survivors.
  2. ^ Fayyazi, Nickan (9 April 2019). "Battle of the Benjamins". Medium. Retrieved 26 March 2024. liberal Hosen L'Yisrael (Israel Resilience Party)
  3. ^ "Netanyahu's main challengers form centrist alliance ahead of Israeli election". France 24. 21 February 2019. Gantz heads his recently launched centrist Israel Resilience party
  4. ^ "Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu's hesitant rival". Le Monde. 19 March 2024. centrist Israel Resilience Party
  5. ^ "Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni quits politics". Al Jazeera. 18 February 2019. Benny Gantz and his centrist Israel Resilience Party.
  6. ^ Hoffman, Gil. "Gantz, Lapid, Labor start campaigns with humor". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  7. ^ "שינוי שם מפלגה". Gov.il. ביום י"א באלול התשפ"ג (28 באוגוסט 2023) שונה שמה של מפלגת "חוסן ישראל" שמספרה 59-900123-7 לשם: "כחול לבן חוסן לישראל"
  8. ^ "בני גנץ רשם את מפלגתו החדשה: "חוסן לישראל"". וואלה! חדשות. 27 December 2018. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Gantz emerges as Bibi's main challenger". Intermountain Jewish News. 14 February 2019. Yaalon remains widely respected in Israeli society and cements Gantz and Resilience for Israel, or Hosen LeYisrael, as a center-right party with a strong security portfolio.
  10. ^ "Most Israelis support publication of indictment decision in Netanyahu probe: poll". i24NEWS. 24 January 2019. his two main competitors on the centre-left, Benny Gantz's Hosen Yisrael party and Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party.