Tami (, an acronym for Tenoa'a laMesorat Yisrael (Hebrew: ????? ?????? ?????), lit Movement for the Heritage of Israel) was a Sephardi-dominated political party in Israel during the 1980s. It was led by Aharon Abuhatssira for its entire existence. Background Tami was founded shortly before the 1981 elections when Minister of Religions and former Mayor of Ramla Aharon Abuhatssira broke away from the National Religious Party after they had failed to stop him from being stripped of his parliamentary immunity and put on trial. Campaigning on a platform of equality for all citizens regardless of religion, ethnic background, or nationality, Tami won three seats, taken by Abuhatssira, President of Sephardi Federation of Israel and former Mapai and Alignment MK and Minister Aharon Uzan, and another former NRP member, Ben-Zion Rubin. The party were invited into Menachem Begin's coalition government alongside Likud, the Nationa

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