The Mapam members of Kibbuts Iftach, scene of violent clashes last month between Mapam and Mapat party adherents, today agreed to leave the colony and establish, a new settlement in a hilly Galilee region. The old settlement will now secede from the Mapam. Settlement association and join the Mapai collective settlement movement.
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