Meimad

Meimad is a left-leaning religious political party in Israel, founded in 1988. Meimad is the transliteration of a Hebrew acronym meaning "Jewish State, Democratic State". It is often allied with the Israeli Labour Party (HaAvoda). It emphasizes the values of many social democratic parties, except on religious issues. Meimad, unlike Labor, takes a center-right approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It advocates the inclusion of religious studies in the main curriculum of Israel's public schools, and encourages the use of rabbinical courts in addition to civil courts. It is currently headed by Rabbi Yehuda Amital.The party is currently headed in the Knesset by Rabbi Michael Melchior,who has served in the Barak

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Political party - Israel - Hebrew - Israeli Labour Party - Social democratic - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Religious studies - Rabbinical court - Yehuda Amital - Michael Melchior

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government as minister of diaspora affairs. He is currently deputy minister of education. Under Rabbi Melchior, the party has taken an even more left leaning approach both in foreign and especially in domestic affairs. The party has run in municipal elections in 2003,

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winning a number of key seats in Tel Aviv. It also ran together with the more farther left Meretz party in Haifa in which it shares a seat under a rotation agreement.

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