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United Labor Party Votes for Joint Election Lists with Mapam Party

March 26, 1968
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Israel’s United Labor Party secretariat voted 81 to 20 last night to accept joint election lists with the left-wing labor party, Mapam. despite reservations expressed by the Party’s secretary-general, Mr. Golda Meir. The alignment will be effective in the Knesset (Parliament), in local town councils and in four trade unions, but not in Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, where Mapam agreed only to cooperation subject to a number of conditions. Mrs. Meir expressed the hope that Mapam leaders would eventually agree to a full alignment on all fronts. The link with Mapam was supported in the Secretariat by former Mapai and Achdut Avodah members. It was opposed by ex-Rafi party members and by the younger Mapai element.

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