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Both sides were digesting the voting tallies for delegate representation in the 1.5 million-member Histadrut, the sprawling national labor federation that embraces 60% of Israel's 2.49 million eligible voters. The contest was viewed as the first real test of strength between Begin and Peres as the campaign started to heat up for the June 30 parliamentary election that is regarded as critical not only for Israel but for the Middle East peace process. The outcome, however, suggested that Israelis are far from certain-and generally less than enthusiastic-about the choices before them...
Labor's coalition won handily in the Histadrut balloting with 62.9% of the vote, compared with 57.1% in the last federation elections in 1977. Support for Begin's forces declined from 28.1% to 26.3%. But a Labor Party victory in a workers' organization was hardly surprising. In fact, some Labor leaders had been hoping for a 70% total. Nor were the Peres forces encouraged by the fact that only about 55% of Histadrut members bothered to vote at all. That number was in line with public opinion polls showing that fully 50% of Israeli voters are still...
...agreement. He made no apologies for his opposition to the accord, but Begin nevertheless brought him back as Israel's economic police chief, as it were. Hurvitz scored a notable success last April when he managed to seal a pact with Israel's major labor federation, the Histadrut, to set a graduated ceiling on wage claims until April 1982. Nevertheless, he worries about the government's chances of bringing inflation under control. Says he: "Inflation is like a cog and in Israel it's very well greased...
Blaming the government, some 8,000 members of Histadrut, the large labor federation, demonstrated outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Said Yeruham Meshel, the organization's secretary-general: "This government is indifferent to the public's mood." Other critics demanded the resignation of Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, often called Yigal the Printer for his willingness to issue new currency to keep up with inflation. Seeing the Begin government thrown on the defensive, the opposition decided to strike...
...late '20s, Golda became active in Histadrut, the Jewish labor federation; in 1940 she was named head of its political department. After World War II, with all signs pointing toward an end to Britain's mandate over Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, head of the Jewish Agency, dispatched Golda to the U.S. to raise money for arms that the new Jewish state would need. She minced no words. As she told a Chicago assembly of fund raisers: "You cannot decide whether we will fight or not. We will. You can only decide one thing: whether or not we shall...