Word: herut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world's first successful strike against tipping...
...decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer or two at the cops...
Shortly thereafter, the French made a basic political decision: courtship of the Arabs was over. From then on, France set to work to woo Israel, the Arabs' enemy. Menachim Beigin, onetime terrorist and leader of Israel's hot-headed Herut party, visited Paris and was invited to address the Chamber of Deputies?an unprecedented honor for an opposition politician of a foreign country. Secretly, France shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. On Sept. 23, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion joyfully proclaimed that Israel had at last found "a true ally." (The U.S. embassy in Israel sent round...
...Cabinet. Now, if Ben-Gurion does try to form a government, he will need all his tact (which is in short supply) even to achieve a stable governing coalition. Mapai got 39 of the Knesset's 120 seats, compared to 45 in the last election. The Herut, successor to the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, was now the second largest party in the Knesset, an upset that was widely regarded as a sign that the voters want a more aggressive border policy...
...come incognito, if at all. and fibbed to the press that his trip had been canceled. Not until his trip was over and he was back home in Hamburg last week did the story of the "traveler to Cyprus" come out. "Israel has been defiled," cried the jingoist daily Herut, but other Israelis found the situation wryly humorous. "When the Germans have to travel incognito among Jews," said one, "then the wheel has really turned...