General Zionists

General Zionists
ציונים כלליים
Leader
FounderYehoshua Sofersky
Founded1922
Dissolved8 May 1961
Merged intoLiberal Party
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
NewspaperHaBoker
Ideology
Political position
Most MKs23 (1951)
Election symbol

The General Zionists (Hebrew: הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים, romanizedHaTzionim HaKlaliym) were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann and their views were largely colored by central European culture.[2] The party was considered to have both conservative and liberal wings,[3][4][5] and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud.

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