Mayor Shlomo Lehat of Tel Aviv will head the list of the new Liberal Center Party in the next Knesset elections. The party, founded by disaffected members of the Liberal Party wing of Likud, was officially launched at a press conference in Tel Aviv last week.
It described itself as the authentic successor to the mainstream General Zionist movement, which is traditionally bourgeois in domestic economic policy and moderate in foreign policy.
Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives, is president of the Liberal Center. The other founding members are former Knesset Speaker and Cabinet Minister Yitzhak Berman and Mayor Yehezkel Harmelech of Rehovot. They expressed concern over the Liberal Party’s drift to merge with Herut, its rightwing partner in Likud.
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