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...campaign should prove bitter, with hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
...only to provide needed Israeli housing but also to make Egyptian attack impossible. He contends that the original settlement can be stretched to create a buffer zone, with satellite towns as far as the Sinai hills 50 miles away. His most vigorous opposition springs from the left-wing Mapam Party. It accepts border settlements as a temporary protective measure but believes that in the long run, the country will be more secure if a formal peace is negotiated and Arabs are granted equal rights and a separate state within what once was Palestine. Mapam leaders have criticized Dayan...
...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...
Religion = Submission? First-generation Zionists refused to look on the Bible as anything but a history of the Jewish people-a group of the left-wing Mapam movement even bowdlerized the Bible of any reference to God and tried unsuccessfully to promote its use on collective farms. But recently even the most determined agnostics began to feel that this spiritual decontamination policy had gone too far. Young people were contemptuously ignorant of all Jewish tradition and looked down on everything that happened before the turn of the century as belonging to a "submissive people." Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem...