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...Mapai, the center socialist party, has traditionally dominated all coalition governments. This has also resulted in a disproportionate influence for the National Religious Party (Mafdal), an essential Mapai ally in the often shaky coalitions. Mafdal generally agrees to support Mapai's foreign policy in return for Mapai acquiescence to Mafdal religious initiatives...
There are currently 14 political parties represented in the Knesset, ranging from the communists--the only legal communist party in the Middle East--to the conservative Cherut party. Most parties are affiliated with one of three major political blocks: the Labor Alignment centered around Mapai and including several more strongly socialist parties as well as the Israeli Arab parties; the two religious parties, of which Mafdal is the largest and the center right block of three parties, called Likud...
...former Ambassador to Washington, Rabin was selected by a Labor Party Central Committee as Premier-designate after Golda Meir announced her resignation last April 11. Although widely respected by Israeli voters, Rabin has antagonized some members of the Labor establishment by excluding members of the dominant Mapai faction of the Labor Party from important Cabinet posts...
...Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because Sapir believes that the new government will not survive for more than two months. Nor has departing Golda Meir gone out of her way to bolster Rabin's cause. Since he was neither a dyed-in-the-wool Mapai man nor an experienced politician, she was cool to his selection as the new Premier-designate and did not attend all of the Labor Party meetings at which the makeup of the new government was discussed...
...maneuvering that preceded the vote, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, the party kingmaker, insisted that he wanted as Premier no ex-general and nobody outside his own Mapai faction of the party. Yet when the vote was taken, Sapir was among Rabin's principal supporters simply because he realized that ex-General, non-Mapaist Rabin was most likely to win. Rabin, in shirtsleeves along with Opponent Peres and other party members in the stuffy theater, accepted the nomination calmly. "The sons of the founding generation have come of age," he said. His brief acceptance speech was conciliatory to avoid irritating...