fliday, October 1, 1948

Elections Awaited
by Israeli Voters

Ben Curion's Party
Confident of Victory

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tion of Israel.
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No one here had any respect
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for the count or his mission.
Everyone recognized in him an
agent of the British govern-
ments. Nevertheless nearly every-
one knew, and knows, that the
method of individual violence
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greater difficulties.
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Instead of Bernadotte another
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"Bernadotte" will come, since the
same powers that sent Bernadotte
ALL THOSE WEARING
still prevail in the Security Coun-
'IARtetuLKAs". STRoN4
cil of the UN. The cleansing out
PROTESTS •ttowEvER.
of the Sternist intractables has
DELAyE.D THE tafoll.C.E.
MINT FOR AWHILE..
become a must, and the govern-
ment is facing up to the issue.
NO CIVIL WAR
Those who, like Sulzberger of var is losing. This is interpreted advocates nationalization of
in-
the New York Times, think that as a significant trend.
dustry and the right wing led by
a civil war In Israel must come TOUR THE COUNTRY
Bernstein. The Mizrachi and the
on the issue of the Stern Group,
The Mapam leaders, Moshe Hapoel Hamrizra•hi are not ex-
are deeply mistaken and can not Snch, Meier Yaare mad Taben- pected to show added strength.
understand the deep changes that kin are touring the country and
The Communist party, whose
have taken place since the estab- building up their party organiza-
lishment of the sovereign State. tion. They rely greatly upon their newspaper Kol Haam has a cir-
culation of 4,000, will probably
It is the electoral campaign for influence in the Palmach, the play an important role in direct-
the constituent assembly and Haganah's striking force, where ing toward the Mapai such left
the November elections them- they hold most of the key of- wing votes as may be an import-
selves that will prove that the ficers' positions.
ant factor in the elections.
people of Israel have found their
There is no doubt also that the
Also of interest is the Com-
own way and will follow it de- Mapam will gain much support
spite all difficulties and internal because of the general pro-Soviet munists' ability to win the votes
of such Arabs as will be voting
and external sabotage.
sentiment among the population in the elections. It has not yet
No one here missed the import due to the stand the Russians been decided how the Arab issue
of Secretary Marshall's Washing- have taken towards Israel in the will be handled, but it may be
ton statement that the recogni- UN and in helping arm the Ha- that the Arab League of National
tion of Israel and the American ganah. Mapam's "friendship with Liberation will have its own can-
loan will be determined by what Russia" plank is the main con- didates.
happens in the Israel elections.
cern of the American embassy
If they are elected, they may
This was rather crude but di- here.
safely be counted upon to vote
rect way of saying that if Israel
The assassination of Bernadotte
with the Mapai on all key issues.
wishes favors from Washington it is not 'likely to lend strength to
will have to vote the Washington the Revisionists and the lrgun
way, i.e., against those parties Freedom Movement which ap-
The Arab League is an alli-
that favor friendship with Rus- peared to be gaining before. The ance of seven Arab countries—
sia and her allies.
two groups are discussing an Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Le-
It is nut likely, however, that electoral block.
banon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and
Marshall's declaration will win
Menachem Beigin in a recent Yemen.
here anything more than
speech in Tel Aviv indicated his
ELECTION RULES
belief that the Revisionists would
David Ben Gurion favors elec- win one third of the votes. This.
tions by constituencies as prac- however, is challenged by all Greetings
ticed in the United States. Canada other parties. Nevertheless the
and Britain. However, the other growth of the a a rotation of Ir-
parties demand elections by pro- gun's "Freedom' to 15.000 copies
portional representation which a week is an indication of grow-
they claim give results more ing strength and may give the
closely related to the genuine Irgun the right to (Jahn as many
sentiments of the voters and of as 50.000 votes.
course will give them a better OTHER PARTIES
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representation.
The General Zionist Party
which
was
not
expected
to
win
All men of 18 years of ape or
1345 DIVISION
over in Israel at the time of the many seats may win even less
elections including the detainees owing to a deep split between the
in Cyprus will have the right to left wing led by Gruenbaum who
vote. This also applies to women.
Candidates will have to he at
, .
least 25 years of age. Govern-
eetinsrs Irons
ment officials who accept nomi-
nations will be expected to re-
LfilliS
sign before the elections. A wi
Business and Professional Chapter
ck' list is now being worked on,
of final Brith, No. 240
but final decisions on this are
still to be made.
The largest Israel party, the
Mapai (brad Labor Party) is
confident that it will win thc ma-
New Year (Greet ingti
jority of the seats. However, ob-
servers are convinced that the
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Mapam (United Workers Party)
the result of fusion betWecn the
liashomer Hatzair and Achduth
Avodah and also supported by
left wing elements, will show
much greater strength than be-
fore and may offer stiff opposi-
Fay M. Thomas, Vice Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
tion to the Mapai.
The newspaper Al Ilamishmar
DETROIT
published by Mapam is growing
in circulation while Mapai's Da-
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_Page Fifty-seven

Pamphlet Surveys
Israel Government

of the background and accom-
plishments to date of the gov-
ernment and its departments.
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Other titles in the ZOA pam-
phlet series are:

NEW YORK'-"The Govern-
ment of Israel," by Shimshon
Oxman, has just been published
by the education department of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica as Pamphlet No. 9 in its se-
ries of educational brochra es.
Oxman, in this 24-page book-
let, presents a clear and compre-
hensive picture of the provisional
government of Israel through a
non-technical and extremely
readable description of the func-
tions of -the various Israeli min-
istries, their personnel and pro-
gram.
Also included is a brief history

"Haganah—A History of Jewish
Resistance," "General Zionist
Program,' by Dr. Israel Gold-
stein; "Auto-Emancipation," by
Leu Pinsker; "Your 7.0A--i Its
Place in the Zionist Movement";
"Hebrew: The Story of a Living
Language," by William Chomsky;
"Parties in Israel--Their History
and Programs"; "Zionist Hand-
book—A Dictionary of Zionist
Terms and Information," by Carl
Alpert: `"The Jewish Problem—
How to Solve lc' by Louis D.
Brandeis.
The price of each is 10 Cents,
and they are available singly or
in bulk through the education
department of the ZOA, 41 East
42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.

Rosenwald Yomen
Choose Officers

Carl Alpert is director of the
Mrs. Clara Cohen has been department.
elected president of the Women's
Auxiliary of the Rosenwald Post,
American Legiila.
She will serve with Mesdames
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Bessie Vine and Marion Gold-
berg, vice-presidents; Rebecca
and Best Wishes to All
Bruce, secretary; Sadie Rosner,
treasurer; Goldie Eilbaum, his-
torian; Mac Marsh, chaplain;
Fannie Olshansky, sergeant-at-
arms; and Mary Tenenbaum,
color-bearer.
The executive is made of up
Mesdames Sadie Morrison, Jean
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