from wikipedia .........
"At Israel's founding in 1948, the
Labor Zionist leadership, which went on to govern Israel in its first three decades of independence, accepted a pragmatic partition of what had been British Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states. The opposition
Revisionist Zionists, who evolved into today's
Likud party, sought
Eretz Yisrael Ha-Shlema—Greater Israel, or literally, the Whole Land of Israel (shalem, meaning complete)."
[8] The capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt during the
Six-Day War in 1967 led to the growth of the non-parliamentary
Movement for Greater Israel and the construction of
Israeli settlements. The
1977 elections, which brought
Likud to power also had considerable impact on acceptance and rejection of the term. Greenberg notes: