The Mapam leadership debated over the week-end whether to continue its alignment with Premier Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor Party or go it alone. The matter will be brought before the Mapam convention, scheduled to be held in December, although some party circles have suggested postponement until February, 1976 when the political situation arising from the new interim accord with Egypt is more clear.
Continuance of the alignment with Labor was defended at the leadership meeting here by veteran Mapam leader Yaacob Hazan. He was supported by MKs Yehuda Udin and Reuven Arazi. But other MKs–Dov Zakin, Aharon Ephrat, Eliezer Ron and Chaika Grossman–argued that while there might be a politically pragmatic reason for the alignment with Labor, it was time that Mapam went to the electorate on a separate list. Supporters of the alignment maintained that Mapam could better influence the nation’s political and economic decisions from within.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
