All efforts to establish a Religious Bloc for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to take place on July 30, failed today when the Mizrachi Laborite Party announced that it will present a separate list of candidates.
The leaders of the party emphasized that they see no way of joining the Religious Bloc of which the Mizrachi laborites were a part in the previous parliamentary elections. All indications point to the fact that there may be at least four competing religious lists in the election campaign.
Addressing the opening session of the national conference of the Progressive Party in Tel Aviv last night, Dr. A. Granott, head of the Jewish National Fund, said that the majority of the members of the Zionist Organization of America and the Hadassah members in the United States are supporting the progressive trend in General Zionism. In a message to the conference, Premier David Ben Burien said: “You are among the few who dared to continue in this country the fine tradition of Zionism.”
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