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ISRAEL: DAVID LEVI CALLS FOR NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT

(18 Jun 1995) English/Nat A former leader of Israel's Likud party, David Levi, called his supporters together in Tel Aviv Sunday to lay the cornerstone of a new movement which they hope will change the country's political map. Israel has a long tradition of coalition governments and the new bloc could join small religious parties in the role of kingmaker after parliamentary elections at the end of next year. Hundreds of Israelis came to this banquet hall near Tel Aviv to cheer and support their longtime leader, David Levy, who has finally taken charge of his own political movement. The Moroccan-born former Foreign Minister split from the rightist Likud opposition after a bitter personal struggle with its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Levy, greeted by his followers with chants of David, King of Israel is trying to attract disaffected Sephardim, or Jews of Middle Eastern descent. And there's another emerging splinter party - a group of ex-generals and former members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Labour Party, calling itself the Third Way. It seeks middle ground between Rabin's accommodation of Arab demands and the right's uncompromising hard line. SOUNDBITE: Our government has decided already to withdraw from the Golan Heights and I don't know about the Jordan Valley and other areas in Judea and Samaria. We have decided to build this movement maybe in the future we will be a party, this is the reason. We are trying now to block the government from withdrawing from the Golan Heights. SUPER CAPTION: Avigdor Kahalani, The Third Way It seems that these groups' voices are being listened to. Pollsters predict they will have some success in elections next year. SOUNDBITE: The New Way, this group got in our poll up to 7% of the vote, mostly at the expense of Labor, but some also from the Likud. The potential break-off party of Levy also received 5%. Together, all of the sudden, 12% of the vote has gone over to these two parties. SUPER CAPTION: Hanoch Smith, Pollster With Israel long dependent on coalition governments, the new blocs could join small religious parties in the role of potential kingmaker after parliamentary elections scheduled for November 1996. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...