M aO M ' S Tl ir s t Herat Gains Second; Religious Group in Third Position
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time in recent years that the
Labor Party unseated the cen-
trists 'in this city.
Herut has chalked up 16.5 per-
cent; Mizrachi, 6.1 percent;
Leachdut Avodah, 5 percent;
Agudah, 4.4 percent; Progres-
sives, 3.9 percent; Mapam, 3.3
percent, and Communists, 2.5 per-
cent. These figures are based on
a count of 150,000 votes.
One Arab was killed and 16
others were wounded in Tamra
in Upper Galilee when two feud-
ing Arab "families clashed.' out-
side a . polling station Tuesday.
As nearly as could be determined
fighting broke out over politics.
A number of other minor clashes
were reported from other Arab
villages.
Should the Labor Party win
in Tel Aviv, Golda Myerson will
become Mayor.
Religious Repercussions
In Israel's Elections
JERUSALEM — Election day
was quiet as nearly 1,000,000
Israelis went to the polls to elect
the nation's third Parliament in
which 120 deputies will sit. The
only untoward incident in Jeru-
salem came when the police ar-
rested Rabbi Amram Blau, leader
of the violently. anti-Israel Ne-
turei Karta, ultra-Orthodox sect,
for carrying on a noisy propa-
ganda against voting outside the
polling station in Mea Shearim,
the section in v,rhich ultra-Ortho-
dox Jews live.
The first voter in Jerusalem
Tuesday morning was Interior
Minister Moshe Shapira, who-
hurriedly cast his ballot and then
left for a tour of the ,nation's
polling places to check on the
administration of the election.
He was followed by Premier
Moshe Sharett and President
Itzhak Ben-Zvi as voters number
two and three.
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early and was followed by other
leaders of his party at the settle-
ment.
Results of the election are not
expected to be known with any
certainty - until Friday because
the polls closed at 11 p.m. Tues-
day and counting will be rela-
tively slow. It is estimated that
under Israel's proportional rep-
resentation system, a Knesset
member will need 80,000 votes
to win his seat. Fully 20 percent
of Tuesday's voters who cast their
first 'ballot were either youths
who had come of age since the
last national election or were
recent immigrants.
The day was a holiday for most
of Israels workers, but newspap-
ermen and those employed in
health services and transporta-
tion facilities had to work and
turned out early to cast their bal-
lots.
Among other early morning
voters were passengers on out-
bound planes and ships who hur-
ried to Lydda Airport or Haifa's
harbor as soon as they voted.
A demonstration of respect for
Israel's democracy was given at
Bnai Brak, an exclusively Ortho-
dox settlement, where the Wish-
nitzer Rebbe, clad in holiday at-
tire, set out for the polling -place
followed to his Chassidim. He
refused to ride several hundred
yards from his home to the poll-
ing station, noting- that election
day was a holiday. ,
When he arrived, a single po-
liceman on duty had difficulty_
in restraining hundreds of Chas-
sidim who crowded: around to
watch the Wishnitzer Rebbe come
to vote. After the Rebbe dropped
his envelope in the ballot box,
the chairman of the elections
committee kissed his hand.
Later, the Rebbe said he had
instructed his Yeshiva students
to arise early in the morning in
order to make sure they _voted.
The settlement was the scene of
many processions as rabbis and
their students walked in a body
to cast their votes.
The campaign featured, aside
from three unscheduled bomb at-
tacks, a "new look" in posters
as Israel's top artists turned their
talents to electioneering- on card-
board and banner. Besides this,
various parties demonstrated in-
genuity by taking to the air with
balloons and to small motor boats
all loaded with election propa-
ganda.
Municipal elections held simul-
taneously with the national elec-
tions, in 19 cities and 63 towns
and villages, attracted a large
number of voters. More than
2,150 polling places were set up
for the elections. All police were
on duty, with most of them at
polling places. They were assisted
by thousands of government
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Several thousand -supporters
of Mr. Rokach assembled near
his home and expressed their
determination to continue the
election campaign "in spite of
the bomb terror." Mr. Rokach
himself, in a • statement from
his bed, said: "Bombs could not
stop me from continuing my
activities for the state and for
my city. I call on all political
parties to regard the situation
as most serious that has devel-
oped. from the use of bombs in
an attempt to force opinions
on others. Let the bomb at my
home become a warning note
to all Israelis."
Mayor Chaim Levanon of Tel
Aviv, a. General Zionist, said at
a mass meeting that the Tel Aviv
municipality severely condemns
such terrorist tactics. He called
on the leaders of all political
groups to take steps to end the
use of such methods in this elec-
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election duty.
The Israel Cabinet, at its last
meeting before the national elec-
tions, took a vigorous stand
against the bombings which took
place during the election corn-
paign and which reached a high-
point when a bomb was thrown
early Saturday into the home of
Israel Rokach, former Minister
of Interior, who is the General
Zionist candidate for Mayor of
Tel Aviv. The apartment was
damaged by the blast.
Mr. Rokach was not hurt, but
a physician who was called to
examine him shortly after the
bomb incident ordered him to re-
main in bed and forbade his par-
ticipation in five eleCtion meet-
ings scheduled for the day. The
incident was the principle feature
in all election speeches delivered
by leaders of the General Zionist
Party, who declared that "the
bomb will not frighten us." The
bombing of Mr. Rokach's home
was the third such incident in-
volving General Zionist meetings
and personalities.
The Cabinet condemned the
bombing incidents in general and
the one directed against Mr.
Rokach in particular, and issued
a call to the entire population to
expose the "evil-doers" and em-
phasized that "only enemies of
the state, aiming to undermine
the foundations- of the state, can
commit such crimes."
The police announced a reward
of 10,000 Israel pounds for infor-
mation leading to the arrest and
conviction of the person or per-
sons responsible for the bombing
of Rokach's residence. The police
detained a number of persons in
connection with the bombing, but
all of them- were later released
after they satisfied the authori-
ties as to their whereabouts at
the time of the bombing.
Premier Moshe Sharett, ad-
dressing an election meeting, in
Petach Tiqvah, said that the gov-
ernment is determined to do its
utmost to discover the vandals
who threw the bomb into Mr._
Rokach's home. He 'Said that the
use of bombs is a violation of
democracy. s
A special dispute — whether
to vote or not — raged in the
Mea Shearim quarter where
Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews
live. An unofficial canvass
found that a minority of the
eligible voters were planning
to boycott the elections to un-
derscore their refusal to recog-
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