Career
He became chairman of the Kibbutz Movement"s defence committee and of the Northern Settlements Forum for the Defence of the Golan Heights. He was re-elected on the joint Likud-Gesher-Tzomet list in the 1996 elections, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education, Culture, and Sport. He left the position on 20 January 1998, but returned to the cabinet in the same role a week later.
He resigned again on 2 November 1998.
On 4 March 1999 Peled left Tzomet and established his own faction, Mekhora. The new party immediately merged into Moledet.
Moledet ran in the 1999 elections as part of the National Union alliance.