Former Histadrut General Secretary Pinhas Lavon–who was ousted from that post in the Israel Federation of Labor in 1960–was removed by the organization’s General Council today from membership on that executive body. The vote was 137 in favor of this second ouster, against 99. Approving the motion to remove Mr. Lavon and all of his followers from the Histadrut executive were the members belonging to Mapai and the religious parties.
The removal of Mr. Lavon from the executive was ordered due to the fact that he had recently quit the Mapai Party, forming his own political faction, Min Hayesod. The General Council stated in its resolution today that any member of the executive who quits his party relinquishes, thereby, his post in Histadrut’s governing body. Mr. Lavon who, in 1955, lost his seat as Defense Minister on charges that he had been responsible for a “security mishap,” and found himself ousted from the Histadrut leadership in 1960, remained, nevertheless, a member of the executive until now.
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