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Next day in the wire-enclosed Central Elections Committee headquarters in Jaffa, guarded by a posse of police, the votes were counted. The result showed an un expected drift away from Ben-Gurion's moderate Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member...
...stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel himself, a promising politico in the Mapai Party and an assistant to Cabinet Minister Dov Joseph...
...Many. By the time the trial was done, all the old rifts in Zionist Jewry, the rifts between Left and Right, moderation and extremism, Irgunist nationalism and Mapai Socialism, were rent wide open again. Fortnight ago, the trial judge found Greenwald guilty on one count-that of falsely accusing Kastner of sharing Nazi profits-and fined him one Israeli pound...
...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...
...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...