Word: mizrachi
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...political aggregation of black-marketeers, the Orthodox bloc as fanatics, the Mapai as fellow travelers. Unless he swallowed some of his campaign oratory, his only possible partners in a new coalition would be such splinter groups as the Progressives (four seats), the pro-Mapai Arabs (five seats), the Mizrachi Religious Workers (eight seats), the Yemenites (one seat). Joined with them, B.G.'s Mapai could command a bare hold on the Parliament. In that case, Israel stood in danger of becoming, in Ben-Gurion's own phrase, "a second France without a stable government...
When the proclamation was being considered by the State Council, grey-bearded, scholarly Rabbi Juda L. Fishman spoke for the Mizrachi, or orthodox Jews. He asked that the word Elohenu (Our Lord) be used. Agricultural Minister Aron...