Word: mapai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action. Then in stepped No. 2, David Ben-Gurion, the roughshod warrior-intel lectual, the visionary with a rifle who physically established Israel. Last week, to succeed the retiring Ben-Gurion as Premier, the Mapai, Israel's biggest party, nominated a man of quite different stripe: Moshe Sharett, 59, Israel's Foreign Minister...
...cannot continue," wrote 67-year-old Premier David Ben-Gurion last week. "I cannot bear up any more against the mental strain that I suffer in the government . . . For six years I have been working in a state of high tension . . . Mine is no ordinary tiredness." The Mapai Party's central committee heard his letter read in silence, then his comrades begged him to reconsider. But B-G sat still and unmoving. A woman rose; she had lost two sons in the war to establish Israel. "If I gave my sons to the nation," she demanded...
...Evenings, he and his wife Paula (whom he married in Brooklyn) sat at the kitchen table eating a supper of sour cream, cheese, bread and salad. He clung to the white, open-necked shirt that is the unofficial uniform of the Israeli pioneer. Once he turned up at a Mapai meeting after a Soviet embassy reception, still clad in striped pants and morning coat, explained: "Please forgive my working clothes...
After two days of listening to these and other complaints, Dulles will go to Jerusalem to be received by frankly apprehensive Israelis. An official of Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party said last week: "During the Truman regime, we were our rich uncle's favorite Middle East nephew. Now there are eight favorites-all of them more favorite than Israel...
Foiled by the Partition plan, Russia recognized Israel, hoping to lead the new country with enough Communists to get both Jewish allegiance and a well-fortified outpost on the Mediterranean. This was the Kremlin's biggest error in judgment. Even now the Mapai and General Zionist parties have framed a resolution to throw the Communists out of parliament along with any other party which received less than 10 percent of the vote...