Vote counting in elections for chairman of Israel’s Labor Party was halted after one of the candidates claimed fraud. Current Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who was unofficially trailing Knesset speaker Avraham Burg by 50.1 percent to 48.6 percent with 95 percent of the vote counted, said he would appeal to legal channels to determine the outcome of the vote.
Keep Jewish Stories in Focus.
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.
