Shinui

For the halakhic principle, see Shinuy.
Shinui
שינוי‎
LeaderRon Levintal
Tommy Lapid
Avraham Poraz
Amnon Rubinstein
Founded26 March 1974 (1974-03-26)
Split fromDash (1978)
Merged intoDash (1976)
Hetz (2006)
Ideology
Political position
International affiliationLiberal International[18][19]
AllianceMeretz (1992–1997)
Knesset
0 / 120
Most MKs15 (2003)
Election symbol
הן‎, יש‎
Website
shinui.org.il

Shinui (Hebrew: שִׁינּוּי, lit. 'Change') was a Zionist, secular, and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third-largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977, the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for Change, but the alliance split in 1978, and Shinui was reduced to two seats at the next elections. In 2003, the party won 15 seats alone, but lost them all three years later after most of its MKs left to form new parties. The party was a member of Liberal International until 2009.[citation needed]

Though it had been the standard-bearer of economic liberalism and secularism in Israel for 30 years, the formation of Kadima robbed Shinui of its natural constituency, and in January 2006 the party split into small factions, none of which managed to overcome the 2% threshold needed to enter the Knesset.[20]

  1. ^ [1] Mentions "Liberal" as one of the characteristics of their desired state[dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b Shmuel Sandler; M. Benjamin Mollov; Jonathan Rynhold (2005). Israel at the Polls 2003. Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society: Israel: The First Hundred Years. Psychology Press. pp. 10, 57. ISBN 9780415360197. Retrieved 21 June 2015. It was a reform party advocating a written constitution, civil rights, flexibility in negotiations with Palestinians, a free economy with progressive taxation, improved public behavior of politicians, and law and order.
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  4. ^ [2] Civil marriages (including divorce) and public transport on Shabbat.[dead link‍]
  5. ^ Ian Lustick (1994) [1988]. For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. Council on Foreign Relations. p. 123. ISBN 9780876090367. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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  7. ^ [3] Shinui believes in freedom of religion and freedom from religion.[dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Israel Political Parties: Shinui". Jewish Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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  10. ^ "Obituaries". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 2010-05-24. Campaigning on an anti-clerical, anti-corruption
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  12. ^ "Radio projects totals from 99 percent of polling stations with PM-Israel-election, BJT". Associated Press. 2 November 1988. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  13. ^ G. G. Labelle (23 August 1989). "Israel Probes Israeli Mercenaries' Role in Colombia With AM-Colombia, BJTc". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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  15. ^ Reich, Bernard; Goldberg, David H. (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. Scarecrow Press. p. 395. ISBN 9780810864030. Retrieved 21 June 2015. In 1992, it joined with two other left-wing Zionist parties (Mapam and CRM) to form the Meretz/Democratic Israel coalition that won 12 Knesset seats and joined Rabin's Labor-led coalition. Prior to the May 1999 Knesset election, Shinui broke away from Meretz, and sought to redefine itself as a centrist party.
  16. ^ Chad Atkinson (2010). Dangerous Democracies and Partying Prime Ministers. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 53. ISBN 9780739133613.
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  18. ^ Alan John Day; Ciarán Ó Maoláin; Henry W. Degenhardt, eds. (1988). Political Parties of the World. Longman. p. 296. ISBN 9780582026261. Shinui became a member of the Liberal International in 1986.
  19. ^ Smith, Julie (1997). A Sense of Liberty: The History of the Liberal International, 1947-1997. Liberal International. p. 59. ISBN 9780950357560. Further afield, the Israeli political landscape changed in the 1980s and 1990s, again affecting LI membership: the progressive liberal party, Shinui, joined LI at the 1986 Hamburg Congress;...
  20. ^ "Israeli political parties". BBC News. 5 April 2006. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.