Word: mapam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin had calculated, the moving reunion of the Hechts was a shot in the arm to Israel's pro-Communist Mapam party, which has been in decline since the arrest in Prague early this year of a Mapam official, Mordechai Oren, accused of activities against the security of the state. It was a short-lived advantage. Few Israelis have forgotten that in Russia there are still about 2,000,000 Jews to whom Stalin will not issue emigration permits...
...south. When the votes were counted, B.G. was in as much trouble as ever. His Mapai had increased its popular vote from 35 to 37%, but had emerged with the same 46 seats. The Orthodox religious bloc had lost ground-from 16 to 14 seats. The pro-Soviet Mapam, formerly Israel's No. 2 party, dropped from 19 seats to 15. But B.G. had a new antagonist: into second place, increasing their seats from seven to 20, went the right-of-center General Zionists...
...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...