History
Degel HaTorah was founded in 1988 as a splinter from Agudat Israel. Its establishment by Rabbi Elazar Shach was due to policy disputes with the Hasidic rabbis within Agudat Yisrael. In the 1988 elections the party won two seats, taken by Moshe Gafni and Avraham Ravitz, and joined Yitzhak Shamir's coalition government.. For the 1992 elections the party allied itself with Agudat Yisrael under the name United Torah Judaism.
Although the party split shortly before the 1996 elections, they reunited for the elections. This was repeated for the 1999 and 2006 and 2009 elections.
Currently the party has two MKs (of the five representing UTJ), Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev.
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