Religious Parties in Israel

Since then, and despite short comebacks to power (under Ytzhak Rabin in 1992 and Ehud Barak in 1999), the Labour Party and its Ashkenazi social base are going through a deep process of political decline for the benefit of religious, right-wing and Oriental parties.
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             Eretz Israel.
             (Hebrew for «  Land of Israel   » or «  State of Israel   »). Eretz Israel covers the territories which were part of the Jewish Kingdom(s) at the time of the First and Second Temple. This means beyond Palestine and into a part of Jordan.
             While some zionist activists still aim to have the modern Jewish state established in the whole area, the great majority of zionists accepts that the State of Israel be established in only a part of Eretz Israel.
             No political party in Israel today demands that Israel should seek to occupy the whole of Eretz Israel, but the Israeli right-wing parties are only ready to accept the withdrawal from the Eretz Israel zones (a development due to the reality imposed by the 1993 Oslo agreements and the recognition by Israel of the existence of the Palestinian people) under the condition that the Palestinian entity that would emerge not have the attributes of a sovereign state, but instead remain ultimately under the power of the Hebrew State.
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             EU-Israel agreements.
             The Community has signed several agreements with Israel. The 1975 Agreement, which entered into force the following year, is within the Community's Overall Mediterranean Policy. It provides for the free access of Israel's industrial products to the Community market " on 1 January 1989, the free trade regime in the industrial sector became total: Israel then abolished its last custom duties against Community products " and tariffs concession for most Israeli agricultural products. Israel is the only Mediterranean country with which the Community has established a perfectly reciprocal free trade zone.