Tami (, an acronym for
Tnu'at Masoret Yisrael (), lit
Movement for the Heritage of Israel) was a
Mizrahi-dominated
political party in
Israel during the 1980s. It was led by
Aharon Abuhatzira for its entire existence.
Background
Tami was founded shortly before the
1981 elections when Minister of Religions and former Mayor of
Ramla Aharon Abuhatzira broke away from the
National Religious Party after they had failed to stop him from being stripped of his parliamentary immunity and put on trial.
Campaigning on a platform of equality for all citizens regardless of religion, ethnic background, or nationality, Tami won three seats, taken by Abuhatzira, President of Sephardi Federation of Israel and former
Mapai and
Alignment MK and Minister
Aharon Uzan, and another former NRP member,
Ben-Zion Rubin. The party were invited into
Menachem Begin's coalition government alongside
Likud, the National Religious Party,
Agudat Israel,
Telem and later
Tehiya. Abuhatzira was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Welfare and
Minister of Immigrant Absorption, but resigned from both positions in April 1982 after being convicted of larceny, breach of trust and fraud, handing over both positions to Uzan.
The party performed poorly in the
1984 elections, losing many of its voters to the new Sephardic party
Shas, and won only one seat, taken by Abuhatzira. It merged into the Likud during the Knesset session and ceased to exist.
Knesset members
External links
- Knesset website
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