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Rafi

Description:

A party formed in 1965 by a group of MKs who left Mapai under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion. The background to this move was the Lavon Affair, and opposition to the formation of the Alignment with Ahdut Ha'avoda. Inter alia, Rafi supported electoral reform. The party ran in the elections for the the Sixth Knesset and in 1968 participated in the establishment of the Israel Labor Party with Mapai and Ahdut Ha’voda. In the course of the Ninth Knesset, three MKs who broke off from the Likud called their parliamentary group by Rafi - the National List. About four months later, that parliamentary group split, and the name Rafi disappeared.

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	5 04/09/1961 22/11/1965	Knesset Members: Joseph Aharon Almogi David Ben-Gurion Gideon Ben-Israel Moshe Dayan Amos Degani Hannah Lamdan Shimon Peres Yizhar Smilansky



	6 22/11/1965 17/11/1969	Knesset Members: Joseph Aharon Almogi Aryeh Bahir David Ben-Gurion Mordechai Ben-Porat Moshe Dayan Amos Degani Mathilda Guez Yitzhak Navon Shimon Peres Yizhar Smilansky Mordechai Surkis Zvi Tsur



	9 13/06/1977 20/07/1981	Knesset Members: Igael Hurvitz Yitzhak Peretz Zalman Shoval



	10 20/07/1981 13/08/1984	Knesset Members: Igael Hurvitz



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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