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==History== The Meimad movement was founded on 1 June 1988 by Rabbi [[Yehuda Amital]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Hoffman |first=Gil |date=7 June 2018 |title=Religious-Zionist Meimad party reviving |work=The Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/religious-zionist-meimad-party-reviving-559376 |access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref> and included former [[National Religious Party]] Knesset member [[Yehuda Ben-Meir]]. It emerged from ''Oz ve Shalom (Strength and Peace)'', an Orthodox Jewish peace movement.<ref name=":1" /> It contested the [[1988 Israeli legislative election|1988 Knesset elections]], receiving 0.7% of the vote and failing to cross the 1% [[electoral threshold]]. Following the [[Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin|assassination]] of Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] in 1995, his successor, [[Shimon Peres]], invited Rabbi Amital to serve as a [[Minister without portfolio|Minister without Portfolio]]. He held this position until 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-11 |title=PM: Rabbi Amital loved peace |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel/pm-rabbi-amital-loved-peace |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}</ref> Eleven years later, a political party for the movement was established, and joined the [[One Israel]] alliance that won the [[1999 Israeli legislative election|Knesset elections that year]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61748377 |title=World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties |publisher=Facts on File |others=George E. Delury, Neil Schlager |year=2006 |isbn=0-8160-5953-5 |edition=4 |location=New York, NY |pages=653β655 |oclc=61748377}}</ref> Meimad received one seat, taken by [[Michael Melchior]]. It gained a second when [[Yehuda Gilad (politician)|Yehuda Gilad]] replaced [[Maxim Levy]] in 2002. [[Tova Ilan]] also represented Meimad in the Knesset for a brief spell in 2006, after several other Labor MKs resigned. It attracted moderates among immigrants from the English-speaking world, including [[Shimon Glick]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brinkley |first1=Joel |title=Keys to Israeli Vote: The Orthodox and the Arabs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/18/world/keys-to-israeli-vote-the-orthodox-and-the-arabs.html |newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 October 1988 |access-date=30 October 2014}}</ref> In November 2008, minister and former Labor Party member [[Ami Ayalon]] joined Meimad.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3624006,00.html |title=Ami Ayalon won't join Meretz|publisher=[[Ynet]] |date=2008-11-17 |last=Somfalvi |first=Attila |access-date=2008-11-17}}</ref> In the same month, the party ended its alliance with Labor after being told that 10th spot on the list would no longer be reserved for Meimad for the [[2009 Israeli legislative election|2009 legislative elections]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} Shortly afterwards, Ayalon announced his resignation from politics,<ref>{{cite news |author=Gil Hoffman |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Ayalon-declares-he-is-quitting-politics |title=Ayalon declares he is quitting politics |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=14 December 2008 |access-date=21 June 2015}}</ref> and the party formed an umbrella alliance with [[Green Movement (Israel)|the Green Movement]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Ehud Zion Waldoks |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Green-Movement-Meimad-run-together |title=Green Movement, Meimad run together |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=18 December 2008 |access-date=21 June 2015}}</ref> In 2012, Melchior announced that he would not stand for election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Melchoir |first1=Michael |title=Pursuing the Meimad mission from beyond the political arena |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pursuing-the-meimad-mission-from-beyond-the-political-arena/ |work=The Times of Israel |date=11 December 2012 |access-date=30 October 2014}}</ref> The party was revived in 2018.<ref name=":0" />
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