The national convention of the Hapoel Hamizrachi, Zionist Orthodox Labor Party, today voted approval of a merger with the Mizrachi Organization. The name of the merged group will be the United Religious Zionist Party. It was also decided that with the merger all fractions within the Hapoel Hamizrachi would be dissolved.
The vote came after a lengthy debate between delegates who favored and those who opposed the merger. The opponents feared chiefly that the “labor” ideology of the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement would be lost within the larger group. It was agreed that the Hapoel Hamizrachi would continue its trade union and settlement activities.
The delegates heard a report from Benjamin Uchachor, who stated that the Hapoel Hamizrachi party now has 55,000 members, in addition to 15,000 members in its youth movement. The party, he said, operates 70 agricultural settlements with 35,000 inhabitants.
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