Telem (2019 political party)

Telem
תל״ם
LeaderMoshe Ya'alon
Founded2 January 2019
Split fromLikud
Ideology
Political positionCentre[1] to centre-right[2]
National affiliationBlue & White (2019–2020)
ColoursDark blue
SloganChoosing responsibility
Knesset
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Website
www.telem-il.org

Telem (Hebrew: תל״ם, an acronym for Tnua Leumit Mamlakhtit, lit. National Statesman-like Movement) is a centre-right political party in Israel. The party was formed by former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and registered on 2 January 2019 in order to contest the April 2019 Knesset elections. It subsequently joined the Blue & White alliance. Yesh Atid and the party left the alliance on 29 March 2020 after Blue and White joined the government and instead formed an independent faction in the Knesset called Yesh Atid-Telem. Telem left the short lived alliance with Yesh Atid soon after. The party dropped out of the 2021 Knesset elections on 1 February 2021.

  1. ^ "Analysis: Gantz throws Bibi a political lifeline". Labour friends of Israel. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  2. ^ Kaufman, Karen (28 March 2019). "The Parties in Israel's 2019 Parliamentary Election". Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Retrieved 5 March 2020.