The Movement for Greater Israel was a political organisation in Israel

Israel

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 during the 1960s and 1970s which subscribed to an ideology of Greater Israel

Greater Israel

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The organization was formed in July 1967, a month after Israel captured the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...

, Sinai peninsula

Sinai Peninsula

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 the West Bank

West Bank

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 and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War

Six-Day War

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. It called on the Israeli government to keep the captured areas and to settle them with Jewish population. Its founders were a mixture of Labor Zionists

Labor Zionism

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, Revisionists

Revisionist Zionism

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, writers and poets, including Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman

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, Aharon Amir

Aharon Amir

Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.- Biography :Amir was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He moved to Palestine with his family in 1933 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His father,...

, Haim Gouri

Haim Gouri

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, Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi

Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi

Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionist. Ben-Zvi was the wife of the second President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.-Biography:...

, Yitzhak Tabenkin

Yitzhak Tabenkin

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, Icchak Cukierman

Icchak Cukierman

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, Zivia Lubetkin

Zivia Lubetkin

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, Eliezer Livneh

Eliezer Livneh

Eliezer Livneh was a Zionist activist, journalist, publicist and Israeli politician. He is known for his activism for nuclear proliferation of the Middle East and for his endorsement of the Greater Israel cause.-Biography:...

, Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir

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, Shmuel Katz, Zev Vilnay

Zev Vilnay

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, Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg

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, Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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, Isser Harel

Isser Harel

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, Israel Eldad

Israel Eldad

Israel Eldad , was a noted Israeli independence fighter and Revisionist Zionist philosopher...

, Dan Tolkovsky

Dan Tolkovsky

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 and Avraham Yoffe

Avraham Yoffe

Avraham Yoffe was an Israeli general during the Six-Day War. He later entered politics, and served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1973 and 1977.-Biography:...

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In the 1969 Knesset elections

Israeli legislative election, 1969

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 it ran as the "List for the Land of Israel", but earned only 7,561 votes (0.6%), and failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1%. Prior to the 1973 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1973

The Elections for the eighth Knesset were held on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 78.6%.-Results:1 Aryeh Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement...

, it joined the Likud

Likud

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, an alliance of Herut

Herut

Herut was the major right-wing political party in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.-History:...

, the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (Israel)

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, the Free Centre

Free Centre

The Free Centre was a political party in Israel, and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud.-Background:The party was created on 29 March 1967 during the sixth Knesset when Shmuel Tamir led a breakaway of three Herut members after a leadership dispute with Menachem Begin...

 and the National List

National List

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. Likud won 39 seats, of which one was allocated to the Movement for Greater Israel, and taken by Avraham Yoffe.

In 1976 it merged with the National List and the Independent Centre

Independent Centre

-History:The faction was established by Eliezer Shostak and Ehud Olmert in 1974 when they broke away from the Free Centre, a member of the Likud alliance. The new faction remained part of Likud....

 (a breakaway from the Free Centre) to form La'am

La'am

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, which remained a faction within Likud until its merger into Herut in 1984. Two of its members, Moshe Shamir and Zvi Shiloah

Zvi Shiloah

Zvi Shiloah was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya in 1984.-Biography:Born Zvi Langsam in Boryslav, Austria-Hungary , Shiloah was educated in a local gymnasium. During his youth he was a member of the Gordonia movement...

 later became Knesset members for Likud and Tehiya

Tehiya

Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small right-wing political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992...

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