The issue of merger with the right-wing Herut Party came to the fore here today at the 21st national convention of the General Zionist Party of Israel as a “reform” group within the centrist party pressed a union of all non-Socialist groups into a “National Liberal Party.” The vote will be taken by secret ballot.
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