Editing Shimon Peres (section)

==Return to opposition (1990–1992)==
==="The dirty trick"===
Peres and the Alignment finally left the government in 1990, after "[[The dirty trick (Israel)|the dirty trick]]" – a failed bid by Peres to form a narrow government based on a coalition of the Alignment, small leftist factions and [[Haredi Judaism|ultra-orthodox]] parties.<ref>{{cite book|title = Political Transformations and Political Entrepreneurs: Israel in Comparative Perspective|first = Assaf|last = Meydani|year = 2009|isbn = 978-0-230-10397-9|chapter = Political Entrepreneurs and Institutional Change: The Case of Basic Law: The Government (1992)|pages = 41-104 (esp.75-76 and 85-85)|publisher = [[Springer Publishing]]}}</ref> Peres' hope had been to create a Labor-led government that would be focused on peace talks with Palestine. Likud had declined proposals by the United States for Israel and Palestine to initiate what would have been the first peace talks between the two sides. Peres' longtime intra-party rival, Yizhak Rabin, had opposed to overthrowing the Likud-led coalition government.<ref name="rabinchallenges1"/> Peres succeeded in ending the government twenty-third government with a [[vote of no confidence]].<ref name="Rais"/> However, Peres was subsequently unable to assemble enough Knesset partners to form a pro-peace talk government.<ref name="rabinchallenges1"/> After two months, Shamir managed to form a Likud-led government with right-wing religious parties, establishing what was seen as the most conservative government coalition in the history of Israel up to that point.<ref name="Rais"/><ref name="rabinchallenges1"/>

===Defeat in the 1992 Labor Party leadership election===
Peres led the opposition in the [[Knesset]] from 1990 until early 1992, when he was defeated by Yitzhak Rabin in [[1992 Israeli Labor Party leadership election|the Israeli Labor Party leadership election]], the first leadership election held since the party formally merged with the other parties of Alignment, and the first leadership election open to participation by the party's entire membership.<ref name = NYTdeath /><ref name="Kenig">{{cite web |last1=Kenig |first1=Ofer |title=The Labor Party Primary Elections |url=https://en.idi.org.il/articles/33585 |website=en.idi.org.il |publisher=Israeli Democracy Institute |access-date=16 July 2021 |language=he |date=1 February 2021 |archive-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716012235/https://en.idi.org.il/articles/33585 |url-status=live }}</ref> Peres remained active in politics, however.<ref name = NYTdeath />