Maram Members Acree to Leave Settlement Will Establish Colony

June 18, 1953

TEL AVIV (Jun. 17)

The Mapam members of Kibbuts Iftach, scene of violent clashes last month between Mapam and Mapat party adherents, today agreed to leave the colony and establish, a new settlement in a hilly Galilee region. The old settlement will now secede from the Mapam. Settlement association and join the Mapai collective settlement movement.

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