Shimon Peres, Yigal Allon and Abba Eban hold the first, second and third places, respectively, on the Labor Party’s Knesset election list approved by the party’s 816-member Central Committee meeting in Tel Aviv tonight.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who resigned as party leader last Thursday, was given 17th place. He selected it himself and it is the same place he occupied in the December, 1973 elections. When Mapam candidates are added to fill out the Labor Alignment list, Rabin will drop to 20th position. He is nevertheless assured of reelection to the Knesset.
Also assured of reelection are Shlomo Hillel, Haim Zadok and Moshe Dayan who were given the fourth, fifth and sixth places, respectively. Except for Dayan and Eban, all of the top six candidates serve in the present government.
The seventh to 16th places were given, in order, to: Mrs. Shoshana Arbeli-Almoslino, of the former Achdut Avoda faction; Yitzhak Navon; Haim Barlev; Gad Yaacobi, Aharon Yadlin; Yehoshua Rabinowitz; Yeruham Meshel, who is Secretary General of Histadrut; Tamar Eshel, head of Moetzet Hapoalot; Amos Hadar, of the former Rafi faction; and Danny Rosolio, of the former Achdut Avoda, Rabbi Menahem Cohen, head of the Labor Party’s religious group, was given 18th place.
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