Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion conferred today with Zalman Aranne in an effort to persuade him to return to the post of Minister of Education which he resigned in a battle with his Mapai party.
The resignation was an outgrowth of a battle by high school teachers in Israel to win recognition of a union they organized independently of the Teachers Union of the Histadrut. The Histadrut union is made up of elementary school teachers and the high school teachers argued they needed their own union because their problems were different from those of the elementary teacher.
Mr. Aranne’s support of the high school teachers ran into stiff opposition first from the Histadrut and then from Mapai leaders and Cabinet members. He thereupon resigned. Subsequently the Prime Minister persuaded the high school teachers to give up their campaign of non-cooperation with the Education Ministry and school superintendents by promising they could keep their union.
Mr. Aranne was reported to be receptive to the idea of returning to his Cabinet post, regarding the Prime Minister’s promise to the high school teachers as a repudiation of the Mapai leaders who opposed him on that issue.
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