This article is about the Zionist movement known as Herut. Herut is also the name of an early egyptian god also spelt Herrut

Herut (Hebrew: חרות - Freedom) was the political party of the Revisionist Zionist movement in Israel. It was conservative and nationalistic and became the main opposition to the Israeli Labour Party. Herut was led from its inception in 1948 by Menachem Begin and after 1983 by Yitzhak Shamir. In 1965, Herut joined with the Liberal Party of Israel to form the Gahal bloc though it retained its own organization within the new party and dominated the new formation. In 1973, Gahal merged with other right wing parties to form Likud, but again, Herut maintained a dominant role in the new party and the main leaders of Likud, including Begin and his successors such as Yitzhak Shamir have been Herut leaders. In 1988 the parties in the Likud coalition, including Herut, formally merged and Herut ended its independent existence.

Herut started out as a medium sized party with 14 seats in the first Israeli Knesset. It was considered to be outside the Israeli consensus, and David Ben-Gurion famously said he was willing to add any party to the coalition "except Herut and Maki," Maki being the Israeli Communist party at the time. It gradually grew, feeding on feelings of resentment against the leading Labour party, mainly among new Sephardi immigrants. In 1967, already being a part of Gahal which had 22 Knesset members, it joined the national unity government created during the Six Day War. It remained in the government for another term, but quit in 1970 due to disagreement over the Rogers plan [1]. It remained an opposition party until, now part of the Likud, seizing power in the 1977 Israeli elections. Herut remained the leading faction of the Likud electoral coalition until 1988 when Likud's factions formally dissolved and Likud became a unitary political party.

In 1998 a new Herut party was created by dissenting members of the Likud led by Benny Begin . See Herut The National Movement for this movement.