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The Center party platform promoted new thinking about national unity, leadership credibility and strategic planning and hoped to establish new institutional rules to guide public life, including a written constitution.
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to Syria for a peace treaty. However, by 1999 The Third Way was a partner of the Likud government and had lost public support due to its lack of influence on Netanyahu. Mordechai wanted further progress in the
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but dropped out when it became clear that Ehud Barak was rising in the polls. In the Knesset elections, the Center Party won roughly 5% of the vote, enough for 6 seats.
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Bringing Dan Meridor on board was important. One of the Likud's younger members, Meridor had a solid record as minister of justice from 1988 until 1992, was the son of
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The party was established on 23 February 1999, towards the end of the
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in 2001. By the end of the Knesset term only Meridor and
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remained in the faction. The party did not run in the
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Leader
Yitzhak Mordechai
Dan Meridor
David Magen
Likud
Gesher
Tzomet
Labor
Ideology
Centrism
Political position
Center
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Israel
Defense Minister
Yitzhak Mordechai
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ehud Barak
Labor Party

1999 Election
14th Knesset's
David Magen
Dan Meridor
Likud

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