Word: mapai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held only 46 seats of the 120 in the Knesset...
...Members of his own Mapai Party...
...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...
They insisted on strict enforcement of the Sabbath, which caused grumbling from the more worldly Mapai partner. They demanded that Yemenite children, who were arriving at immigrant camps in droves, be entered in orthodox religious schools, and Ben-Gurion gave in. But when the government set up immigrant work villages, and the orthodox bloc insisted that the schooling arrangement be carried over into them, the Premier balked...