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...Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
Absence of Issues. Irascible Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had forced the election by resigning in a huff last January after his coalition Cabinet had exonerated former Defense Minister Pinhas La von of responsibility for a 1954 security scandal (TIME, Nov. 7). After pushing through his seventh resignation from the post of Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion forced his Mapai Party to dismiss Lavon as secretary-general of the powerful Histadrut labor federation. The vendetta promised to provide plenty of campaign fireworks. Instead, there was a closing of Mapai ranks. Ben-Gurion refused to discuss the Lavon case on the hustings...
...absence of issues, and with the whole country concentrating on the Eichmann trial.* Israelis could scarcely be blamed for election apathy. One of the nation's 15 political parties even dropped out of the race before election day because it had nothing special to offer the voters. Still Ben-Gurion stumped the land, promising pay raises to workers and civil servants and boasting of national progress. In a whirlwind 24-hour period, he finished his campaign by speaking in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa before going off to Sde Boker, his retreat in the Negev desert. He went confidently...
Limping Along. It was not the happiest of awakenings. Ben-Gurion found that though his Mapai Party remained the most powerful in the nation, it had lost five of its 47 seats in the 120-member Knesset. He called the vote a "victory" for Mapai but a "disaster" for Israel. Long opposed to the nation's proportional representation (he wants a U.S.-style two-party system), Ben-Gurion explained: "I've often said that, for me, 40 or 60 seats in the Knesset is the same thing. Only with a majority of 61 can the electoral system...
...citizenship. Members of Bene Israel held a rally at which they threatened to resort to passive resistance and to stop all immigration from India. This possibility led Executive Chairman Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency to make a private plea to Nissim to change his ruling, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, who faces general elections in three weeks, told a mass meeting: "The Jews of Bene Israel are Jews like all other Jews, and there is no basis for disqualifying them...