Editing Rehavam Ze'evi (section)

=== Political career ===
In 1974, Ze'evi became a consultant on combating terrorism in the government of Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]].<ref name=bbcobituary>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Rehavam Zeevi|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1603857.stm|access-date=18 November 2012|newspaper=BBC|date=17 October 2001}}</ref> The following year he became the prime minister's adviser on matters of intelligence. Ze'evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's [[Menachem Begin]] became prime minister. In 1988, Ze'evi established the [[Moledet]] (Homeland) party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from the [[West Bank]] and the [[Gaza Strip]] to the neighboring Arab countries.<ref name=bbcobituary/> In the election of that year, he won a seat in the [[Knesset]] which he held until his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rehavam Ze'evi |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rehavam-ze-evi |access-date=17 Oct 2023 |website=Jewish Virtual Library}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2023|reason=Jewish Virtual Library cites Wikipedia as one of the sources of its info although it also cites another source.}} <!--The Jewish Virtual Library entry states as one of the sources Wikipedia, but it may or may not be a circular reference regarding the seat won because it's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article at the time of this inclusion although it could have been in an earlier version or not. The other source the JVL cites is the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.}}-->

After the [[Madrid Conference]] of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the [[Likud]] government of [[Yitzhak Shamir]]. He would remain in the opposition for a decade. He disagreed strongly with the [[Labor Party (Israel)|Labour]] governments of 1992{{endash}}1996 led by [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Shimon Peres]] and 1999{{endash}}2001 led by [[Ehud Barak]]. However, he looked favourably on the [[Benjamin Netanyahu|Netanyahu]] government of 1996{{endash}}1999 and supported it from the outside.

In 1999, Moledet united with [[Herut – The National Movement]] and [[Tkuma (political party)|Tkuma]] into a single faction, the [[National Union (Israel)|National Union]]. Following the election of [[Ariel Sharon]] in February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed as [[Tourism Minister of Israel]].<ref name=bbcobituary/> Just two days before his killing he tendered his resignation from the post of Tourism Minister.<ref name=bbcobituary/>