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Meretz

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Toward the end of the Twelfth Knesset, the Mapam, Ratz, and Shinui parliamentary groups merged into single parliamentary group. The common denominator among the three was their advocacy of an agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of a territorial compromise, and the establishment of a Palestinian state, civil and human rights, and the separation of religion and state. In February 1997, the three parties united into a single party, though MK Avraham Poraz preferred to stay outside the new party, and formed the Shinui-Center Party parliamentary group. Meretz was headed by Shulamit Aloni (1991-99) and Yossi Sarid (1999-2003). Meretz ran in the elections for the Sixteenth Knesset in a single list with the Democratic Choice and Shahar, and in the course of the Sicteenth Knesset changed its name to "Yahad and the Democratic Choice".

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	12 21/11/1988 13/07/1992	Knesset Members: Shulamit Aloni Ran Cohen Hussein Faris Chaim Oron Avraham Poraz Amnon Rubinstein Yossi Sarid Yair Tsaban Mordechai Virshubski David Zucker



	13 13/07/1992 17/06/1996	Knesset Members: Shulamit Aloni Naomi Chazan Ran Cohen Anat Maor Chaim Oron Avraham Poraz Amnon Rubinstein Walid Sadik Yossi Sarid Benjamin Temkin Yair Tsaban David Zucker



	14 17/06/1996 07/06/1999	Knesset Members: Naomi Chazan Ran Cohen Anat Maor Chaim Oron Avraham Poraz Amnon Rubinstein Walid Sadik Yossi Sarid David Zucker



	15 07/06/1999 17/02/2003	Knesset Members: Naomi Chazan Ran Cohen Uzi Even Zahava Gal-On Ilan Gilon Hussniya Jabara Anat Maor Chaim Oron Mossi Raz Amnon Rubinstein Yossi Sarid Avshalom Vilan



	19 05/02/2013	Knesset Members: Esawi Frij Zahava Gal-On Ilan Gilon Nitzan Horowitz Michal Rozin Tamar Zandberg



Color Key: Black: A Member of the Knesset who was a member of the parliamentary group throughout the group’s existence in that Knesset Blue: A Member of the Knesset who left the parliamentary group, resigned from the Knesset or passed away Green: A Member of the Knesset who joined a parliamentary group and remained in it until the end of the group’s existence in that Knesset Orange: A Member of the Knesset who joined a parliamentary group and then left it in the course of the Knesset’s term Purple: A Member of the Knesset who left a parliamentary group, and returned to it in the course of the Knesset’s term

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