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...When David Ben-Gurion became Israel's first Prime Minister, in 1949, his mildly socialistic Mapai Party had less than a majority in the Knesset (Parliament). To form a government, he had a choice: coalition with the pro-Soviet Mapam, or with a bloc of four orthodox religious parties...
EZRA OPENS FIRST KNESSET [PARLIAMENT...
Other officials followed him. This week the Knesset held its first session in the Jewish Agency building of Jerusalem's New City. Most of the government started functioning in Jerusalem. But shrewd Ben-Gurion left his Foreign Ministry behind in Tel Aviv, sparing foreign diplomatic missions the embarrassment of having to decide whether or not to follow the Israel government to its new capital...
Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...
...barb aimed less at the Arabs than at Israel's own polygamists. Among the legislators were three Yemenites. Only one of them, bearded sexagenerian Abraham Tabib, had ever practiced plural marriage, and one of his two wives had just died. Old Tabib did not take part in the Knesset debate, but his fellow Yemenite, Monogamist Zacharia Gluska, rose to defend the morals of the sect...