Editing Liberalism in Israel (section)

===Shinui, Democratic Movement, Shinui, Hetz, Yesh Atid, Hosen and minor parties===
*1973: [[Amnon Rubinstein]] forms [[Shinui]].<ref name="Shinui">{{Cite web|url=https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/shinui|title=Shinui}}</ref><ref name="Shinui/Knesset">{{cite web |url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=160 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040905080345/http://knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=160 |archive-date=2004-09-05 |title=Parliamentary Groups in the Knesset}}</ref>
*1976: Shinui merges with other minor liberal parties to become the [[Democratic Movement for Change]] (Dash).<ref name="Shinui"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/dash|title = Dash}}</ref>
*1977: Dash wins 11.6% of the vote and 15 seats in the [[1977 Israeli legislative election|general election]].
*1978: Dash splits into the [[Democratic Movement (Israel)|Democratic Movement]] and the Movement for Change and Initiative.
*1981: The Movement for Change and Initiative renames itself Shinui.
*1988: Shinui is renamed Shinui–Center Party.<ref name="Shinui/Knesset"/>
*1992: The party merges with [[Mapam]] and [[Ratz (political party)|Ratz]] to form [[Meretz]],<ref name="Shinui"/><ref>{{cite book|title=מגמות בחברה הישראלית|editor-first1=Zeev|editor-last1=Shavit|editor-link1=Zeev Shavit|editor-first2=Ephraim|editor-last2=Yuchtman-Yaar|volume=2|year=2001|page=1166|publisher=[[Open University of Israel]]|trans-title=Trends in Israeli Society}}</ref> a social-democratic party.
*1998: [[Avraham Poraz]] leads a split from Meretz and recreates Shinui as an independent party.
*1999: [[Tommy Lapid]] is invited by Poraz to head Shinui.
*2003: The party wins 12.3% of the vote and 15 seats in the [[2003 Israeli legislative election|general election]].
*2006: Lapid leaves Shinui and Poraz forms [[Hetz (political party)|Hetz]].<ref name=heading>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]]|title=Livni heading for 10 seats, and Barak will make it back into the Knesset, poll shows|first=Yoel|last=Goldman|date=23 November 2012|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/livni-heading-for-10-seats-and-barak-will-make-it-back-into-the-knesset-poll-shows/}}</ref>
*2006: Both Shinui and Hetz fail to win any seats in the [[2006 Israeli legislative election|general election]].<ref name=heading/>
*2012: Poraz allows [[Tzipi Livni]] to use the Hetz's infrastructure to base her new party, [[Hatnua]].<ref name=heading/>
*2012: [[Yair Lapid]], Tommy's son, launches [[Yesh Atid]].<ref name=forefront/> 
*2013: In the [[2013 Israeli legislative election|general election]] Yesh Atid wins 14.3% and 19 seats.
*2015: In the [[2015 Israeli legislative election|general election]] Yesh Atid is reduced to 8.8% of the vote and 11 seats.
*2018: [[Benny Gantz]] launches the [[Israel Resilience Party|Hosen]], a broad centrist party whose economic goals are liberal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gantz declares himself politically flexible|first=Gil|last=Hoffman|author-link=Gil Hoffman|date=31 December 2018|newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/gantz-declares-himself-politically-flexible-575978}}</ref> [[Orly Levy]], a splinter from [[Yisrael Beiteinu]], forms [[Gesher (2019 political party)|Gesher]].
*2019: In the run-up of the [[April 2019 Israeli legislative election|April general election]] Yesh Atid, Hosen and the newly-formed [[Telem (2019 political party)|Telem]], led by former Likud minister [[Moshe Ya'alon]], join forces into [[Blue and White (political alliance)|Blue and White]]. The list wins 26.1% and 35 seats, while Gesher 1.7% and no seats. In the [[September 2019 Israeli legislative election|September general election]] the Blue and White list comes first with 26.1% and 33 seats, while Gesher obtains one seat for its leader Levy in alliance with the [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]].
*2020: In the [[2020 Israeli legislative election|general election]] Blue and White increases its tallies to 26.6% and 33 seats, but comes second after Likud. After the election, Blue and White splits over the formation of a national-unity government along with Likud: Hosen, which retains the "Blue and White" name, on one side, Yesh Atid and Telem on the other. In the event, a minority faction of Telem splits and forms [[Derekh Eretz (political faction)|Derekh Eretz]], supporting the national-unity government along with Hosen. In December Derekh Eretz joins [[New Hope (Israel)|New Hope]]. Also in December [[Ofer Shelah]], a splinter from Yesh Atid, announces his intent of forming a new political party named [[Tnufa]], while, on the left, [[Tel Aviv]] mayor [[Ron Huldai]] leaves the [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]] to launch [[The Israelis (political party)|The Israelis]], which was joined also by leading splinters from Hosen / Blue and White.
*2021: In the run-up of the [[2021 Israeli legislative election|general election]] Yesh Atid and Telem part ways, and the latter finally drops out. In the election Yesh Atid wins 13.9% and 17 seats, Blue and White 6.6% and 8 seats, New Hope 4.7% and 6 seats. All three parties go on to be part of the [[36th government of Israel]], with Yesh Atid being the largest faction.