Word: mapai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately the meeting perked up. A Mapai (Labor) member sharply denounced wages for extra wives, then sneered, "If there are any among us who are doing such immoral things...
...Torah," he protested, "does not forbid polygamy." Glaring at his Mapai colleague, he shot back: "We don't recognize it as immoral to keep wives at home. It is immoral to have one wife at home and a few other wives on the outside...
...Quintessence of Maladresse." When the gabble of 21 electioneering parties had died down, 427,000 voters (including 30,000 Arabs) went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists...
...Since Mapai is committed to negotiations rather than military action as the way to peace, the election results might put new life in the Jewish-Egyptian peace talks going on under U.N. auspices at Rhodes. Both sides were making minor concessions but holding fast to major positions. The atmosphere was that of "a comfortable chess game," but a Briton from the Foreign Office said that if his government should join the U.S. in putting on pressure for peace, a formula would pop up at Rhodes in short order...
...Mapai's important rival, Mapam (United Workers Party), which claims to be nonCommunist, although its platform sounds like Radio Moscow: "We are against bases and concessions to imperialism; we are for an alliance of the progressive forces headed by Russia...