National elections for the third Parliament have been scheduled for July 26, Dr. M. Zilan, elections inspector, announced here today.
Nearly 2,000 polls will be set up to accommodate the 1,040,000 eligible voters, including 60,000 non-Jews, he said. He noted that this figure represented an increase of 200,000 eligible voters over the number who participated in the last general election in 1952.
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