The only two members of the Mapai Party Secretariat who are not backing Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in his intra-party fight against ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, resigned from the Secretariat today. They are Gen. Moshe Dayan, former Minister of Agriculture, who quit the Cabinet several weeks ago, when the Eshkol-Ben-Gurion battle became a hotter issue, and Uzi Feinerman. They were re-elected to the Secretariat by Mapai’s central committee only last Sunday night, after the central body had dismissed the entire 64-member Secretariat, then re-elected all but II outright supporters of Ben-Gurion.
Gen. Dayan and Mr. Feinerman said they quit in protest against efforts being made now by the Mapai Court of Honor to expel Mr. Ben-Gurion, former Defense Minister Shimon Peres, and five of his other leading adherents. It was believed, however, that neither Dayan nor Feinerman will join Rafi, the Ben-Gurion group, outright.
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