27.01.2012                      03.Schwat. 5772                      Auschwitz-Gedenk-Tag

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Israeli settlers make up 30 percent of new Likud members

Over the last two years, settlement activists have been working hard to get settlers to join Likud, with the goal of influencing the party from within.

Some 30 percent of the Likud's new members last year were settlers, raising the proportion of settlers in the party to 2.2 times their proportion among Likud voters, according to a Likud membership list obtained by Haaretz.
Altogether, Likud had 125,696 members as of the end of November 2001, of whom 11,391, or 9 percent, are settlers. In contrast, only 4.1 percent of those who voted Likud in the last election were settlers….