Meanings
- A leading rightist political party in Israel.
The fury of [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party knew no bounds.
2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 20192 more examples
The elections did show the expected quite sharp drop in support for the Likud. But Labour’s campaign to attract former Likud supporters failed.
1984 July 29, Conor Cruise O’Brien, “What the Israeli debate is about”, in The Observer, number 10060, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 6“For this reason, I decided to resign from my job as a minister and member of Knesset,” Shalom said. He is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
2015 December 20, Oren Liebermann, “Silvan Shalom, Israel’s interior minister, quitting amid harassment accusations”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2026
Origin
- Hebrewלִיכּוּד“Likud”
- EnglishLikud
Borrowed from Hebrew לִיכּוּד (“Likud”, literally “consolidation”).
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