5,735 voters out of the total number of 14,000 registered electors to the Jewish Community in Jerusalem went to the poll to-day in the elections to the Vaad Hair. Ten seats of the 31 seats went to Labour, 8 seats to the Toshav Party, which is working for a separate Jewish municipality in Jerusalem, four to the Wizrachi, 3 to the Yemenites, two to the General Zionists, two to the Union of Oriental Communities, one to the Women’s Party, and one to the Poale Zion.
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