Word: mapam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading roles in Israel's convoluted political life. The most important is Premier Levi Eshkol's Mapai, whose power stems directly from Histadrut, the all-encompassing state labor union. Then there are Achdut Ha 'avodah, a Histadrut splinter party led by Labor Minister Yigal Allon, and Mapam, which leans far to the left. Finally, there is the Rafi party of former Premier David Ben-Gurion and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, which broke away from the Mapai two years ago after a feud with Eshkol. Even in Israel, such an improbable segmentation could not continue forever. Ever since...
...army in 1950 by Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, who recalls 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...