Mapam’s political committee said today that the party will not support the so-called Dayan plan for the administered territories which the Labor Party voted last week to incorporate into its election platform. Mapam objected specifically to provisions allowing individuals and private corporations to purchase land in the territories, an activity presently banned by the government.
Mapam, a partner in the Labor Alignment, also took issue with the Dayan plan’s approval of unrestricted Jewish settlement in the territories. Mapam wants this limited, especially where it involves the evacuation of local Arab populations.
Mapam’s objections are considered significant inasmuch as the Labor Alignment’s platform committee will meet shortly to draft a platform combining the views of both partners. Observers here thought it would be difficult if not impossible to reconcile them. Mapam has said it would present the platform committee with its own document but it is not expected to be able to sway the Labor Party from its unanimous support for the Dayan plan. The latter was endorsed by the Labor Secretariate without a single dissenting vote.
According to reports received in London from Jewish sources in the Soviet Union, Evgeny Levich is back in the hospital in Tiksi in the Arctic region. According to information reaching Moscow, his ulcer reopened and his general health has deteriorated.
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