Likud
English
Etymology
From Hebrew לִיכּוּד (“Likud”, literally “consolidation”).
Proper noun
Likud or the Likud
- 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.
- 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times[1], 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.