The Hapoel Hamizrachi central committee today decided to appeal to David Ben Gurion to include the rightwing Herut in a broad coalition government. The religious laborites propose the formation of a broad national government to include all parties except the Communists.
Meanwhile, the delegates to the world conference of the Mizrachi and Poale Mizrachi movements before formally closing their meeting adopted a resolution expressing the “bitter protest of all Jewry” against Jordan’s barring Jews from access to the Wailing Wall, in Jordan-held territory, in violation of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement. The delegates called on the Israel Government to take all action through the United Nations to open the way to Jewish holy places in Jordan territory.
The possibility that the Israel trade unions affiliated with the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement will join the Histadrut, Israel’s general federation of labor, has become more remote than ever before as a result of the merger of the Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi movements. In the past there had been several sets of negotiations between the Histadrut and the labor wing of the religious Zionist movement looking toward eventual merger. However, with the rightwing Mizrachi forces joining opponents among the Hapoel Hamizrachi against the Histadrut merger, the forces opposing merger with the Histadrut will likely overbalance the pro-Histadrut group, it is believed here.
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