Likud

See also: likūd and likud

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew לִיכּוּד (“Likud”, literally “consolidation”).

Proper noun

Likud or the Likud

  1. A leading rightist political party in Israel.
    • 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:
      The elections did show the expected quite sharp drop in support for the Likud. But Labour’s campaign to attract former Likud supporters failed.
    • 2015 December 20, Oren Liebermann, “Silvan Shalom, Israel’s interior minister, quitting amid harassment accusations”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “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.
    • 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 December 2019:
      The fury of [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party knew no bounds.
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