Likud

Likud is an Israeli right-wing political party founded in 1973 as an alliance of political groups and later consolidated as a party. It has led multiple Israeli governments.

Revisionist Zionism: A Zionist movement that advocated Jewish statehood and national self-defense, associated with Ze’ev Jabotinsky. It supplied the ideological tradition from which Likud’s Herut wing emerged.
Benjamin Netanyahu: An Israeli politician who has served multiple terms as prime minister and led Likud for decades. Netanyahu became the party’s defining contemporary leader and longest-serving prime minister.
Camp David Accords: The 1978 agreements between Egypt and Israel that established a framework for peace and Egyptian-Israeli relations. Begin’s government negotiated the accords and agreed to withdraw from Sinai.
1977 Israeli legislative election: The Israeli election in which Likud defeated the Labor Alignment and ended its uninterrupted national dominance. The result, known as the upheaval, marked Likud’s breakthrough into government.
Herut: An Israeli nationalist political party founded by Menachem Begin in 1948, rooted in Revisionist Zionism. Herut was the largest founding component of the 1973 Likud alliance.
Yitzhak Shamir: An Israeli politician who served as prime minister and led Likud from 1983 to 1992. Shamir maintained Likud leadership through the party’s first major succession after Begin.
Israeli disengagement from Gaza: Israel’s 2005 withdrawal of its settlers and permanent military presence from the Gaza Strip. Sharon’s policy triggered opposition within Likud and a decisive party rupture.
Israeli political system: A parliamentary democracy in which proportional representation produces multiparty coalitions and a prime minister-led government. Likud’s governing power depends on coalition formation in this parliamentary system.
Menachem Begin: An Israeli politician who led Herut and Likud and served as prime minister from 1977 to 1983. Begin led Likud to its first national election victory.
Ariel Sharon: An Israeli military commander and politician who served as prime minister from 2001 to 2006. Sharon’s break with Likud over disengagement produced a major party split.

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Moshe KatsavRelated: Katsav’s national political career developed within Likud.