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Tzomet (, lit., Crossroads) is a small, right-wing political party in Israel.
In the 1992 elections, Tzomet rode a wave of secularist sentiment, gaining the support of many young Israelis, leading to a surprising result of eight seats. Despite Tzomet's success it was not included in Yitzhak Rabin's left-wing coalition. The party's surprising success was also its downfall. None of the new MKs had any political experience, and most were completely unknown. Due to Raful's position in his party, the party was jokingly described as "Raful and the seven dwarfs". Allegations of tyrannical behavior by Raful were raised, and in February 1992, three members: Gonen Segev, Esther Salmovitz, and Alex Goldfarb—left and founded the Yiud party (which then also splintered into Atid). The three left the party because Segev was offered the position of Minister of Energy by Yitzhak Rabin if he voted in favour of the Oslo Accords, which Tzomet opposed, and which would not have passed without his vote.
The splintering and infighting reduced the popularity of the party, despite this, ahead of the 1996 elections, Eitan became known as a potential candidate for PM. In the end Tzomet chose to run in a joint list with the Likud and Gesher under the name "National camp List". Tzomet was ensured several relatively high places in the combined list, partly as a reward for the withdrawal of Eitan as prime minister candidate, as the Likud feared that he would act as a spoiler for their candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu. The 1996 elections were the first Israeli elections to feature a double vote: one for the Knesset, and one direct vote for the prime minister. As part of the joint list, Tzomet managed to get all five of its Knesset members back into the Knesset. However, over the course of the next few years, Tzomet continued to splinter: Pini Badash left to run in municipal politics, Moshe Peled broke away to form his own Mekhora faction before joining Moledet while Eliezer Sandberg left to form the Centre Party. By the end of the 14th Knesset, Tzomet only had 2 MKs left: Eitan himself and Haim Dayan.
Following the dissolution of the Likud–Gesher–Tzomet alliance ahead of the 1999 elections, Tzomet was in the "political desert", it attempted to join the National Union joint list or rejoin an alliance with the Likud, however both ventures failed and Tzomet ran alone for the Knesset. Over the years Tzomet had lost almost all its support, and won just 4,128 votes, less than 10% of the number needed to cross the 1.5% electoral threshold. After the humiliating defeat, Eitan retired from the political life.
Despite Rafael Eitan's departure, the party, now headed by Moshe Gerin, ran in the 2003, the 2006 elections, and the 2009 elections, but won only 2,023, 1,342, and 1,520 votes, respectively, in the three elections, not meeting the election threshold in any of them. Following their failure to reach the threshold in four successive elections, the party decided not to run in the 2013 and 2015 elections.
Hazan reformed the party, abandoning Eitan's secularism and statesmanlike conduct in favor of Hazan's own rightwing populist policy and rhetoric. Under Hazan, Tzomet received the best result since Eitan's departure, earning 2,417 votes. Despite Hazan's marginal success, this result was far from enough to reach the electoral threshold, and Oren Hazan lost his Knesset seat.
| Rafael Eitan | 1983 | 1999 | ||
| Moshe Gerin | 1999 | 2009 | ||
| Oren Hazan | 2019 | 2019 | ||
| Moshe Gerin | 2019 | Incumbent |
| 1984 | Rafael Eitan | With Tehiya | New | |||
| 1988 | 45,489 | 2.0 (#10) | 1 | |||
| 1992 | 166,366 | 6.4 (#4) | 6 | |||
| 1996 | With Likud and Gesher | 3 | ||||
| 1999 | 4,128 | 0.1 | 5 | |||
| 2003 | Moshe Gerin | 2,023 | 0.06 | |||
| 2006 | 1,342 | 0.04 | ||||
| 2009 | 1,520 | 0.05 | ||||
| Apr 2019 | Oren Hazan | 2,417 | 0.06 | |||
| Sep 2019 | Moshe Gerin | 14,627 | 0.33 | |||
| 2020 | Did not contest | |||||
| 2021 | 663 | 0.02 | ||||
| 2022 | 377 | 0.01 | ||||
| + !Year !Members !Total | ||
| 1984 | Rafael Eitan | 1 |
| 1988 | Rafael Eitan, Yoash Tzidon | 2 |
| 1992 | Rafael Eitan, Pini Badash, Alex Goldfarb, Haim Dayan, Eliezer Sandberg, Esther Salmovitz, Moshe Peled, Gonen Segev | 8 |
| 1994 | Rafael Eitan, Pini Badash, Haim Dayan, Eliezer Sandberg, Moshe Peled | 5 |
| 1998 | Rafael Eitan, Haim Dayan, Eliezer Sandberg, Moshe Peled | 4 |
| 1999 | Rafael Eitan, Haim Dayan | 2 |
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