Shinui שינוי | |
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Leader | Ron Levintal Tommy Lapid Avraham Poraz Amnon Rubinstein |
Founded | 26 March 1974 |
Split from | Dash (1978) |
Merged into | Dash (1976) |
Ideology | Liberalism[1][2] Economic liberalism Civil libertarianism[3][4] Secularism[5][6] Anti-clericalism[7] Liberal Zionism |
Political position | Center-left (pre-1999)[8][9] Center (post-1999)[2][10][11] |
International affiliation | Liberal International[12][13] |
Alliance | Meretz (1992–1997) |
Knesset | 0 / 120 |
Most MKs | 15 (2003) |
Election symbol | |
הן, יש | |
Website | |
shinui.org.il | |
Shinui (Hebrew: שִׁינּוּי, lit. Change) was a Zionist, secular, and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third-largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977, the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for Change, but the alliance split in 1978, and Shinui was reduced to two seats at the next elections. In 2003, the party won 15 seats alone, but lost them all three years later after most of its MKs left to form new parties. The party was a member of Liberal International until 2009.[citation needed]
Though it had been the standard-bearer of economic liberalism and secularism in Israel for 30 years, the formation of Kadima robbed Shinui of its natural constituency, and in January 2006 the party split into small factions, none of which managed to overcome the 2% threshold needed to enter the Knesset.[14]
It was a reform party advocating a written constitution, civil rights, flexibility in negotiations with Palestinians, a free economy with progressive taxation, improved public behavior of politicians, and law and order.
Campaigning on an anti-clerical, anti-corruption
In 1992, it joined with two other left-wing Zionist parties (Mapam and CRM) to form the Meretz/Democratic Israel coalition that won 12 Knesset seats and joined Rabin's Labor-led coalition. Prior to the May 1999 Knesset election, Shinui broke away from Meretz, and sought to redefine itself as a centrist party.
Shinui became a member of the Liberal International in 1986.
Further afield, the Israeli political landscape changed in the 1980s and 1990s, again affecting LI membership: the progressive liberal party, Shinui, joined LI at the 1986 Hamburg Congress;...