The Mapam Central Committee voted 126-50 Sunday night to accept the resignation of its secretary, Naftali Ben Moshe. The stormy meeting was punctuated by an attack by Ben Moshe on the party’s new secretary general, Meir Talmi, and a warning by veteran Mapam leader Meir Yaari that internal dissension was destroying the party.” Ben Moshe accused Talmi of forcing him out of office because he represented a minority group in Mapam that wants to break its alignment with the Labor Party. He also alleged that the Mapam kibbutz faction was opposed to an urban representative holding the post of secretary. Aryeh Yaffe of Kibbutz Yakum replaced Ben Moshe.
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