Green Party (Israel)

Not to be confused with The Greens (Israel).
The Green Party
המפלגה הירוקה‎
LeaderStav Shaffir[1]
ChairpersonYael Cohen Paran
FoundersEran Ben-Yemini, Alon Tal
Founded2008 (2008)
IdeologyGreen politics[2][3]
Green Zionism[4][5]
Animal rights
Environmentalism
Political positionCentre-left[6][7] to left-wing[8]
National affiliationGreen Movement–Meimad (2009)
Democratic Union (2019–2020)
International affiliationAytzim
SloganChoosing Life
Seats in Knesset
0 / 120
Most MKs1 (2015)
Election symbol
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Website
hayeruka.org.il

The Green Party (Hebrew: המפלגה הירוקה, HaMiflaga HaYeruka), formerly the Green Movement, is a social-environmental movement and political party in Israel.[9][10] After briefly considering running independently in the 2020 Israeli legislative election, the party decided against it, realizing they had little to no chance of passing the 3.25% threshold needed to enter the Knesset. Stav Shaffir, the party's leader, urged supporters to vote for a left leaning party to help defeat Benjamin Netanyahu.[11]

  1. ^ Hoffman, Gil (30 January 2021). "Israel elections: Dozens running for four seats in Labor". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. ^ Zafrir Rinat (19 May 2008). "Weapons can't be green". Haaretz. Retrieved 23 June 2015. Green party representatives from 88 countries, including three from Israel, gathered this month in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the Second Global Greens Congress.... Hadas Shachnai of the Green Party, who represented Israel along with Mosi Raz of Meretz and environmental activist Eran Binyamini.
  3. ^ Zafrir Rinat (2 December 2012). "Israel's Green party primary descends into farce as rivals see red". Haaretz. Retrieved 23 June 2015. The Green Movement has sought to represent a deep commitment to clean politics, direct democracy, and social justice. It had created a precedent by electing two co-chairs, a man and a woman, as is the practice in the German Green Party.
  4. ^ Alon Tal (2002). Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel. University of California Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780520936492. One must also be familiar with the many efforts and organizations that sought to make the Zionist pursuit a more gentle one for the land, resources, and creatures of Israel... If the ingenuity, determination, and emotional power of the Zionist dream is at the heart of Israeli environmental problems, it is also true that a newly modernized, environmentally sensitive Zionism has the power to solve them. The Zionist view of the natural world and how it was manifested in pre-State Israel, therefore, offers a natural starting point to begin Israel's environmental history.
  5. ^ Alon Tal (2013). All the Trees of the Forest: Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300189506.
  6. ^ Ehud Zion Waldoks (20 January 2009). "Green Movement-Meimad to stress environmental issues in elections". The Jerusalem Post.
  7. ^ Tal Alon (24 December 2012). "Four steps for rescuing Judaism and justice in Israel". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  8. ^ Gil Hoffman (25 July 2019). "Polls Find New Democratic Union Party Won't Impact Elections". The Jerusalem Post.
  9. ^ Tom Lansford (20 March 2014). Political Handbook of the World 2014. CQ Press. p. 702. ISBN 9781483333274. Meimad contested the 2009 poll in alliance with the new Green Movement, a social-environmental party recently established under the leadership of Eran BEN-YAMINI and Al TAL.
  10. ^ "Vision for Israel". An Unofficial Blog of the Israel Green Movement. 13 December 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  11. ^ Hoffman, Gil (15 January 2020). "Stav Shaffir, once a star MK, announces break from politics". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 17 January 2020.