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Democratic Movement for Change (DMC)

Description:

A short-lived centrist party that was established toward the elections for the Ninth Knesset, under the leadership of Professor Yigael Yadin. The party was made up of former members of the Labor Party and the Likud, as well as personalities who had not been involved in politics before. The declared purpose of the party was to bring about a change in Israeli politics, while introducing a constitution. The party joined Menahem Begin’s Government in 1977, but its power was limited in view of the fact that Begin did not need it for a majority in the Knesset. Within one year, the DMC started to disintegrate into a number of parliamentary groups, and ceased to exist.

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	9 13/06/1977 20/07/1981	Knesset Members: Meir Amit Shafik Asaad Zeidan Atashi Mordechai Elgrably Shlomo Eliahu David Golomb Benjamin Halevi Akiva Nof Amnon Rubinstein Shmuel Tamir (Katznelson) Shmuel Toledano Mordechai Virshubski Stef Wertheimer Yigael Yadin Assaf Yaguri Meir Zorea



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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