UNITED RELIGIOUS FRONT

United Religious Front: translation

In the election to the firstKnessetin 1949, the variousreligiousgroups—Mizrachi, Hapoel Hamizrachi,Agudat Israel, andPoalei Agudat Israel—all ran on a single electoral list known as the United Religious Front. The front won 16 seats in the Knesset, but it was not sustained, and the religiouspolitical partiesran individually or in smaller combinations in subsequent elections.