Word: mapai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel's first rocket was labeled the second-Shavit Shtayim, or Comet II. Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres explained that this prevented the rocket from becoming known as Shavit Aleph. First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph is a symbol of the government Mapai Party. "We would be accused of making propaganda for the Mapai," explained Peres. Israel boasted that the rocket was "planned, constructed and fired by Israeli scientists and technicians," claimed that most of the raw materials were local...
...today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist Mapam Party and joined Premier David Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai Party. Soon he was back in the Defense Ministry to write a history...
Swift Boot. In secret investigations the courts and even the Israeli Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility. Furious at this disregard of his opinion, Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister, forced his Mapai Party to choose between himself and Lavon. The party's central committee swiftly capitulated, booted Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the potent Israeli labor federation. But audiences in Israeli movie houses booed news films of Ben-Gurion, cheered those of Lavon. Nevertheless, last week Ben-Gurion was prepared to resume his post as Prime Minister when he was disconcertingly balked: four...
...Gurion, Lavon's conduct in 1961 was far more dangerous than whatever he had or had not done in 1954. At stake was Ben-Gurion's plan to bypass aging party chieftains such as Lavon and hand over power one day to Mapai's bright young men, headed by Moshe Dayan, 45, the one-eyed general who was army chief in 1954 and is now Minister of Agriculture and Ben-Gurion's chosen political heir. By suddenly resigning, Ben-Gurion in effect forced the party to choose between himself and Lavon...
...issue was not long in doubt. After a few days of nervous consultations, the Mapai central committee voted 149 to 96 to boot Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the powerful labor federation that he had used as his base of power. Happily, Ben-Gurion turned his thoughts to a new Cabinet that would probably include most of the now chas tened politicians who had dared oppose him on Lavon. The outcome represented something less than judicial fairness to Lavon, who may now bolt the party and try to fight Ben-Gurion on the stump...