Ratz (political party)

Movement for Civil Rights and Peace
התנועה לזכויות האזרח ולשלום
LeaderShulamit Aloni
Yossi Sarid
Gabi Deus (de jure)
Founded1973
Dissolved1997 (de facto)
Split fromAlignment
Merged intoMeretz
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[7]
Most MKs6 (1992)
Election symbol
רצ

Ratz (Hebrew: רָצ), officially the Movement for Civil Rights and Peace (Hebrew: הַתְּנוּעָה לִזְכוּיוֹת הָאֶזְרָח וְלַשָּׁלוֹם‎, HaTnua'a LeZkhuyot HaEzrah VeLaShalom) was a left-wing political party in Israel that focused on human rights, civil rights, and women's rights.[8][9][10] It was active from 1973 until its formal merger into Meretz in 1997. However, it remains a registered political party.

  1. ^ "The Left". The Jerusalem Post. 1999. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  2. ^ Chad Atkinson (2010). Dangerous Democracies and Partying Prime Ministers. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 53. ISBN 9780739133613. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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  4. ^ Reich, Bernard; Goldberg, David H. (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 35, 112–13. ISBN 9780810864030. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. ^ Frank Tachau (1994). Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa. Mansell Publishing. ISBN 978-0720122367. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (Rotz). This radical, dovish, and anticlerical party was founded in 1973 by Shulamit Aloni, a noted civil rights activist, who failed to win renomination on the Labor Party* ticket.
  6. ^ Daniel Judah Elazar (1992). Shmuel Sandler (ed.). Who's the boss in Israel: Israel at the polls, 1988-89. Wayne State University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0814323977. In terms of social and economic policy, Labor is a social democratic party; Mapam, the old socialist left; CRM is an Israeli-style Green party; and Shinui is what Terry Clark has described as Neo-Populist—fiscally conservative and liberal on life-style issues.
  7. ^ Sharon Weinblum (2015). Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel: A Critical Approach to Political Discourse. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-317-58450-6.
  8. ^ Itamar Rabinovich; Jehuda Reinharz (2008). Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present. p. 290. ISBN 9780874519624. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Domestic politics in Israeli peace-making, 1988-1994" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015.
  10. ^ Amnon Rapoport (1990). Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions. Kluwer Academic. p. 388. ISBN 0792306856. Hatnua Lezlmiot Haezrah (the Civil Rights Movement, or CRM) is primarily interested in protecting the secular character of the State of Israel and the civil rights of its citizens. The CRM advocates a liberal economic policy and a dovish stand in the Israeli-Arab conflict.