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Agudat Yisrael אגודת ישראל | |
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| Leader | Yitzhak Goldknopf Ya'akov Litzman Yitzhak-Meir Levin Yehuda Meir Abramowicz Avraham Yosef Shapira Menachem Porush |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Newspaper | Hamodia |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Religion | Haredi Judaism (Hasidism) |
| International affiliation | World Agudath Israel |
| Alliances | United Religious Front (1949–1951) Religious Torah Front (1955–1960, 1973–1977) United Torah Judaism (current) |
| Knesset | 4 / 120
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| Most MKs | 5 (1988) |
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Agudat Yisrael (Hebrew: אֲגוּדָּת יִשְׂרָאֵל; also transliterated Agudath Israel, or, in Yiddish, Agudas Yisroel) is a Haredi Jewish political party in Israel. It began as a political party representing Haredi Jews in Poland, originating in the Agudath Israel movement in Upper Silesia.[3] It later became the party of many Haredim in Israel. It was the umbrella party for many, though not all, Haredi Jews in Israel until the 1980s, as it had been during the British Mandate of Palestine.
Since the 1980s it has become a predominantly Hasidic party, though it often combines with the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi party for elections and coalition-forming (although not with the Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredi party Shas). When so combined, they are known together as United Torah Judaism.
- ^ "Guide to Israel's political parties". BBC News. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ Ishaan Tharoor (14 March 2015). "A guide to the political parties battling for Israel's future". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "YIVO | Agudas Yisroel". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 5 September 2024.