Further efforts to broaden the coalition Cabinet were made today by Premier David Ben Gurion who received a delegation of the Progressive Party, headed by Dr. Abraham Granot (Granovsky.)
The delegation presented the Progressives’ views on the proposed inclusion in the Cabinet of the left-wing Socialist Mapam Party and the Centrist General Zionist Party. The delegation emphasized that the Progresive Party is gravely concerned over official acceptance of the existing multiple educational system.
The Israel Ministry of Education now recognizes four school systems: the general, the Socialist, the Mizrachi religious system and the ultra-Orthodox Agudah system. According to the latest decision of the Cabinet, a referendum on education will be held in the immigrant camps to permit parents to choose the type of school they wish for their children.
The political committee of the Mapen decided last night to submit its own majority and minority resolutions on the question of the party’s joining the coalition Cabinet to the forthcoming plenary session of the Mapam’s executive.
The majority resolution considers that further negotiations with the Mapai are worthless because of the latter’s “failure to display a positive response to the Mapam’s ultimate and minimum proposals.” The minority resolution favors continuation of the conversations, in an attempt to “seek compromise proposals likely to yield grounds for an understanding between the two major wings of the labor movement.” The Mapam executive is scheduled to meet on Thursday.
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