Editing Conservatism (section)

==== Israel ====
{{main|Conservatism in Israel}}
{{Conservatism in Israel}}
After the declaration of the [[State of Israel]], politics was initially dominated by left-wing parties, but overtime right-wing parties became increasingly powerful with conservatism now being the dominant ideology.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shindler |first=Colin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjAZCgAAQBAJ |title=The Rise of the Israeli Right: from Odessa to Hebron |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521193788}}</ref> In the [[2022 Israeli legislative election|2022 election]], right-wing parties received 75 percent of the popular vote, a centrist party 17 percent and left-wing parties 7 percent, and the subsequent government has been variously described as the most right-wing, as well as the most religious, in Israeli history.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kershner |first1=Isabel |last2=Kingsley |first2=Patrick |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Israel Election: Exit Polls Show Netanyahu With Edge in Israel's Election |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/01/world/israel-election |access-date=November 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Maltz |first=Judy |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Will Israel Become a Theocracy? Religious Parties Are Election's Biggest Winners |work=[[Haaretz]] |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/.premium/will-israel-become-a-theocracy-religious-parties-are-elections-biggest-winners/00000184-3db9-dc3c-a1ac-bfbb83b40000 |access-date=November 6, 2022}}</ref>

Israeli conservatism is based around upholding [[Jewish culture]], promotion of forms of [[Zionism]] that tend to be more [[List of irredentist claims or disputes#Israel and Palestine|irredentist]] in nature (i.e. [[Revisionist Zionism|Revisionist]] and [[Neo-Zionism]], which promote the idea of [[Greater Israel]], as compared to [[Zionism#Liberal Zionism|Liberal]] or [[Labor Zionism]], which are supportive of a [[two-state solution]]), promoting Israeli [[national security]], maintaining [[Halachic state|the role of religion and the Rabbinate in the public sphere]], support for the [[free market]], and [[Israel-United States relations|closer ties with the United States]].<ref name=":13">{{cite web |first1=Seth D. |last1=Kaplan |first2=Yitzhak |last2=Klein |title=The Rise of Conservatism in Israel |url=https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/08/the-rise-of-conservatism-in-israel/ |website=American Affairs Journal |date=August 20, 2020}}</ref>
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