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...Warsaw ghetto, landed in Palestine as a refugee in 1947. She joined a kibbutz, served in the Israeli army, raised her son and daughter as Jews, and though nonobservant, celebrates Judaism's major feasts in her house. Now she is a town councilor of Israel's Mapai (Labor) Party in Upper Nazareth...
Weary Chief. In fact, Ben-Gurion was weary of politics-and disturbed by a rising generation that questions his leadership. His Mapai Party was irrevocably split by the 1960-61 Lavon affair, which also tangled the army in politics.* Ben-Gurion has continually had to arbitrate disputes and pacify antagonists. Finally, he has nearly despaired of reducing the multiplicity of parties (15 in all), despite his argument that "if the U.S. with its huge population can get along with two parties, why can't we with only 2,000,000 people...
...forced the election by resigning in a huff last January after his coalition Cabinet had exonerated former Defense Minister Pinhas La von of responsibility for a 1954 security scandal (TIME, Nov. 7). After pushing through his seventh resignation from the post of Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion forced his Mapai Party to dismiss Lavon as secretary-general of the powerful Histadrut labor federation. The vendetta promised to provide plenty of campaign fireworks. Instead, there was a closing of Mapai ranks. Ben-Gurion refused to discuss the Lavon case on the hustings. And Lavon himself, instead of campaigning against Ben-Gurion, simply...
Limping Along. It was not the happiest of awakenings. Ben-Gurion found that though his Mapai Party remained the most powerful in the nation, it had lost five of its 47 seats in the 120-member Knesset. He called the vote a "victory" for Mapai but a "disaster" for Israel. Long opposed to the nation's proportional representation (he wants a U.S.-style two-party system), Ben-Gurion explained: "I've often said that, for me, 40 or 60 seats in the Knesset is the same thing. Only with a majority of 61 can the electoral system...
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...