What is Herut?
{{Infobox political party |name = Herut | native_name = {{Script/Hebrew|חֵרוּת}} |logo = |logo_size = |colorcode = {{party color|Herut}} |leader = {{nowrap|[[Menachem Begin]] (1948–1983)}}<br/>[[Yitzhak Shamir]] (1983–1988) |chairperson = |president = |spokesperson = |merged = [[Likud]] |foundation = 15 June 1948 |dissolution = 1988 |headquarters = [[Tel Aviv]], Israel |newspaper = ''[[Herut (newspaper)|Herut]]'' |ideology = [[National conservatism]]<br/>[[Revisionist Zionism]] |position = [[Right-wing]] |national = [[Gahal]] (1965–1973)<br />[[Likud]] (1973–1988) |international = |seats1_title = Most MKs |seats1 = {{nowrap|28 (1981, 1984)}} |website = |country = Israel |symbol =[[file:CHET_Hebrew_Letter.png|30px]] }}[[Image:Herut First Knesset.jpg|thumb|250px|Herut MKs [[Uri Zvi Greenberg]], [[Esther Raziel Naor]], and [[Menachem Begin]], at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem]] The '''Herut''' Party (Herut means [[freedom]] in [[Hebrew]]) was a [[right-wing]] [[Zionist]] [[political party]] in [[Israel]]. Herut was founded by [[Menachem Begin]] following [[Israel]]'s independence in 1948. Herut believed that all of [[British Mandatory Palestine]] belonged to the [[Jews]]. Herut was opposed to [[Israel]] accepting [[money]] from [[West Germany]] as an apology for the [[Holocaust]]. Herut believed [[security]] was very important. Israel's first [[Prime Minister]] [[David Ben-Gurion]] thought Herut was [[radical]] and he compared [[Menachem Begin]] and the other members of the Herut party to [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazi]]s. Herut's [[leader]] [[Menachem Begin]] was not a [[Socialist]] so he formed an alliance in 1965 with the [[Liberal Party]] to create the Liberal-Freedom Bloc known in [[Hebrew]] as Gush Herut Liberalim or [[Gahal]]. In September 1973, Gahal merged with the Free Centre, the National List and the non-parliamentary Movement for Greater Israel to create the [[Likud]], which was at first an [[alliance]]. In 1988 it became a party and Herut dissolved. {{stub}} [[Category:Former