Yisrael Beiteinu [SEP] inception
BaAliyah Knesset members, Michael Nudelman and Yuri Stern to break away from the party to form their own party Aliyah.
For the 1999 elections, Lieberman, Nudelman and Stern formed Yisrael Beiteinu, a party whose goal was to represent the right wing of the Russian-speaking community in Israel. The new party won four seats. Due to Ehud Barak's victory in the 1999 elections, the new party sat in the opposition in the new Knesset. On 1 February 2000, while sitting in the opposition, the party joined
Likud Yisrael Beiteinu
Likud Yisrael Beiteinu (; often referred by the Israeli media as Likud Beiteinu, ) was an electoral alliance formed in 2012 by the center-right Likud and the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu to contest the January 2013 Knesset elections.
History.
On 25 October 2012, several days after the decision to dissolve the 18th Knesset and after the decision was made to hold general elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman convened a joint press conference in which they announced for the first