Former Premier David Ben Gurion, who is leadings in his Tel Aviv home this weekend with Benjamin Mintz and Rabbi Kalman Kahana, leaders of the Agudah Workers party, and the four General Zionist members of the Cabinet.
In his meeting with the Cabinet Ministers, Mr. Ben Gurion pressed for adoption of the Mapai plan for an election system based on regional representation. The Ministers–Dr. Peretz Bernstein, Israel Rokach, Joseph Serlin and Joseph Saphir–favored a system combining proportional and regional representation.
Mr. Ben Gurion suggested that the Mapai and the General Zionists set up a biparty committee to discuss a satisfactory election system. In his talks with the Agudah Laborites, he expressed the hope that a new electoral system would be in effect by the time a third Parliament is chosen.
A meeting of the central committee of the Agudah Workers today welcomed initiative taken by Orthodox circles in the United States to re-establish the Religious Bloc in the Israel Parliament. The Agudist group pledged its assistance to the plan.
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