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Likud
1973– · Israel · National Conservative · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Security-first nationalism, settlement of the West Bank, free-market economics, judicial restraint.
Economic model
Privatisation, deregulation, technology-sector growth, reduced transfers.
Organisation of powers
Parliamentary democracy; pursued a judicial overhaul in 2023 that produced the largest protests in the country's history.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +06
Market-oriented: the 2003 reforms under the current prime minister as finance minister were among the deepest in Israeli history.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2003 emergency economic plan cut transfer payments, raised the retirement age and privatised state holdings.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +06
Coded +6: traditionalist coalition politics with a secular liberal party history.
- Documented act or statuteGoverns in coalition with parties committed to religious authority over personal status law.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +05
Coded +5. The 2023 judicial legislation is the basis; it was partially passed, then struck down.
- Documented act or statuteThe reasonableness standard for judicial review of executive appointments was legislated away in July 2023 and annulled by the supreme court in January 2024.
- Documented act or statuteThe proposals prompted the largest sustained protests in the state's history.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +03
Coded +3: unitary with settlement administration outside the ordinary municipal system.
- Documented act or statuteWest Bank settlements are administered under military order rather than civil law.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +07
Coded +7: the 2018 Basic Law defines national self-determination as belonging to one people.
- Documented act or statuteThe Nation-State Basic Law of 2018 removed Arabic's status as an official language and named Jewish settlement a national value.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −03
Coded −3: entirely electoral, with the judicial overhaul pursued through legislation.
- Documented act or statuteHas alternated in and out of government repeatedly since 1977.
How it moved
Positions are recorded at dated anchor points tied to a documented moment — a programme adopted, a government formed, a reversal. Nothing is interpolated between them, because nothing is known between them. Figures in amber moved by two points or more from the previous anchor.
| Anchor | EC | CU | AU | SC | ID | CH | What it is tied to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +04 | +05 | +02 | +03 | +06 | −03 | First non-Labour government in Israeli history; the Histadrut economy begins to be dismantled. |
| 1996 | +06 | +05 | +02 | +03 | +06 | −03 | Oslo framework constrained rather than reversed. |
| 2015 | +06 | +06 | +03 | +03 | +07 | −03 | The Nation-State Basic Law follows in 2018. |
| 2024 | +06 | +06 | +05 | +03 | +07 | −03 | Judicial overhaul legislated and partly annulled by the supreme court. |
Net movement, 1977 to 2024: EC +2, AU +3. A trajectory records where an organisation has been. It does not forecast, and several organisations in this corpus moved a long way with no warning available in advance.
Where it came from, and what came after
- is a continuation ofRevisionist Zionism
Continuous through Herut, founded by the Irgun's commander in 1948.
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Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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