Friday, October 2, 2943

How Government

of Israel Functions

(Continued from page 52)

;minted on the Labor Party in
opposition to prod him into ful-
filling Britain's pledges."
How Socialist is the new state
o f Israel? It is certainly as
Socialist as Australia or New
Zealand or England itself.
The bus you board in Tel
Aviv and Haifa, the Tnuva res-
taurant where you eat, the shop
where you buy your clothes, the
factory where the clothes are
made are for the most part
owned by the Histadrut, the
General Federation of Jewish
Labor. And so are the leading
bank and the largest insurance
company.
In fact, the Histadrut controls
almost a fourth of the national
economy. Its membership com-
prises nearly half of the adult
population.
Moreover, most of the coun-
try's agriculture is collectivized.
In the kibbutzim (farming com-
munes) all property is owned in
common and all members con-
tribute and share alike.
But unlike the Soviet system,
there is no coercion in the com-
munes, no party functltinaries to
lay down the "line," no threats
of imprisonment or exile. One
is free to join or quit a com-
mune at will.
To compare a kibbutz to a
Soviet kolkhoz is like comparing
a summer camp to a concen-
tration camp. I know—I have
visited both types of collective
farms.

ties--the General Zionists and
the Aliya Chadasha (New Sett-
lers). They draw their support
mainly from the middle-class
stri.tuan.
At 'the Zionist Congress elec-
tions the former obtained 5.1 per
cent of the votes and the latter
6.3 per cent. Both parties gen-
erally take a progressive, liberal
stand on domestic social issues.
They are the middle-of-the-
roaclers and consider their role
to be one of reconciliation be-
tween the interests of the vari-
ous classes.
The General Zionists have
strong sister parties in the world
Zionist movement outside Pal-
estine, particularly in the United
States.

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25 PARTIES IN ISRAEL
SOCIALIST LABOR dominates
the government and its institu-
tions only by virtue of its elec-
toral strength. It has not set up
a dictatorship of the party.
There are no fewer than 25 po-
litical parties in tiny Israel.
The strongest of these is the
Mapi. In the elections to the
twenty-second World Zionist
Congress in October, 1946, this
party received 35 per cent of
the votes cast and in the Hista-
drut elections 53.7 per cent.
Somewhere to the left of the
Mapai stands the Mapam (the
United Workers' Party), which
came into being in January,
1948, as a result of the merger
of two leftist groups. These two
groups had together polled 24.5
per cent of the votes cast in the
Zionist. Congress elections and
38 per cent in the Histadrut
balloting.
ar . The main strength of the
Mapam is in the agricultural
collective settlements, though it
also has a .following among the
industrial workers and the in-
telligentsia. In internal affairs
the party favors more rapid
and thorough socialization of in-
dustry. In the foreign field it
favors friendship with Russia.
But to regard the Mapam as
pro-Communist would be a
grievous mistake. Its program
m not unlike that of the lnde-
Pendent Labor Party in Britain.
The center in Israeli political
life is represented by two par-

ROSH HASHONAH

Hebrew Comes to Life at Yeshivah

Lt. Eugene Friedman
Reburied in Detroit

Final rites were held at the
Lewis Bros. Chapel for Lt. Eu-
gene Friedman, who was killed
in action, Oct. 20, 1944, on Leyte.
The services were under the aus-
pices of the Rosenwald Post,
American Legion.
Lt. Friedman is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius
Friedman, 16178 Ilene avenue;
brother, Donald; and sister, Mrs.
Richard Gunsberg.

After John Quincy Adams re,
tired from the Presidency, he
served for 17 years in the U.S
house of representatives.

• • •

RELIGIOUS GROUPS
THE MIZRACIII and the Hapoel
Hamizrachi Labor Mizrachi)
parties are composed of religious
Zionists who have striven to
found the Jewish State upon the
precepts of the Jewish faith.
They pelted, respectively, 2.6
per cent and 10.1 per cent of
the votes in the Zionist Con-
gress elections.
The Agudat Israel is an ultra-
orthodox religious party, some
of whose supporters still believe
that a Jewish state should not
be formed until the coming of
the Messiah. Its membership is
estimated at 7,000.
At the extreme right is the
highly nationalistic Revisionist
Party. It favors an all-Jewish
Palestine and is composed main-
ly of middle-class urban ele-
ments. At the last Zionist Con-
gress elections it obtained 13.7
per cent of the votes. The Re-
visionists constitute the main op-
position group within the Israeli
government.
Finally, there is the Palestine
Communist Party, which obe-
diently follows each zigzag of
Soviet foreign policy. It lately
"reconsidered" its anti-Zionist
attitude when Russia came out
in favor of a Jewish state: In
the last general election the
Communists got precisely 3,948
votes—less than 2 per cent of
the total.
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Children of pre-kindergarten age are shown putting together
a jig-saw puzzle of the Hebrew alphabet in their daily after-
noon session at Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.

WEDNESDAY GROUP
cabinet four of the 13 portfolios
Eleanor Wolf, member of the
are held by Mapai, three by
Mapam, and the remaining six Detroit Inter-Racial Committee,
are divided among the smaller will address the Oct. 6 meeting
of the Wednesday Evening Dis-
parties.
cussion Group in the Center.
The elections to a constituent
assembly are scheduled to take A 'Happy New Year to You All
place in mid-November.

The two Socialist parties—the
Mapai and the Mapam—are ex-
pected to poll jointly about 65
per cent of the total vote.

The infant state of Israel is
the youngest member in the
family of nations. To the amaze-
ment of its United Nations
nursemaids, it has turned out
to be a tough kid, with a tena-
cious will to live.

Mr. and Mrs. It. Kar
and Son Abraham
and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kar
and Son Boots
of

37 IN PARLIAMENT
ALL THESE parties plus a
half-dozen others are represent-
ed in the 37-man provisional
parliament. In the provisional

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