Ben-Gurion to Govern Israel as Result of Record-Breaking Victory for Mapai Party Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News JERUSALEM—David Ben-Gurion and his moderate Socialist Mapai party appeared Wednesday to have scored a major victory in the elections to the fourth Knesset, Israel's parliament. On the basis of nearly complete but unofficial returns, Mapai will increase its seats in the Knesset from forty by at least six and perhaps as many as nine seats. - The right wing Herut, Which had talked about oust- ing -Mapai from first place and actually hoped for 20 seats as against its previous 15, may receive no more than 17 seats. The biggest-losers were the General Zionists, who may lose half of their present 13 seats, and the tiny Communist party, which may lose two of its six seats. • • • - • in last July's Haifa ticipating Achdut Avodah, the pro- riots, apparently had failed. Socialist but anti-Soviet left Observers speculating on Wing party, lost two or three the government - to emerge of its 10 seats, while its more leftist ally, Mapam, appeared from the new elections pre- likely to maintain its nine dicted Wednesday that the new Cabinet will ha_ve the seats. The National Religious Par- same components - as the one ty held its 11 seats and the Ben-Gurion pulled down last Progressive Party was consid- summer. It will be Mapai ered likely to add one to its with Achdut Avoclah, Mapam five seats. The three Arab par- and the Progressive Party. ties, who together held seven Such a coalition would have seats, apparently lost them all. about the same majority as the The bid of David Ben-Haroush, one from which Ben-Gurion self-styled leader of the North resigned in the battle with the African Oriental settlers, car- two left wing parties, Achdut ried on from a jail cell_ where Avodah and Mapam, over the he is serving a term for par- Israel arms sale to West Ger- : Governor Presents Feinberg Gift to Hebrew University Library; Visits Jerusalem's Williams-Hart Forest During their visit in Israel, Governor and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams conferred with Israeli government officials and visited installations in which they were especially interested, including the Hebrew University and the site of the Williams and Hart Forest established by the Jewish National Fund. The upper photo shows Governor Williams presenting the Charles E. , Feinberg collection of valuable manuscripts to Dr. Curt Wormann, director of the Jewish National and Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem. The gift from Mr. Feinberg, noted collector of rare manuscripts, included 42 rare volumes and a first edition of the 1473 Bible printed by Jensen —all in their original bindings. The lower photo shows Governor and Mrs. Williams at the site of the forest planted in the hills of Jerusalem in honor of the Governor and of Senator Philip A. Hart when the latter was Lieu- tenant Governor of Michigan. Mrs. Williams and Boris Joffe, executive director of the Detroit Jewish Community Council are fourth and third to the right of the Governor. Mrs. Joffe is third on the left of the Governor. Others in the photo are Israeli Jewish National Fund and gov- ernment -leaders. many. It would have about 69 of the 120 seats in Knesset. The Mapai victory in Tues- day's elections was seen likely to give Ben-Gurion the added strength to strike a harder bargain with potential coalition partners. In the outgoing coali- tion Mapai had 40 seats, plus five pro Mapai Arab deputies out of the 69 coalition votes. Mapai now has 46 and perhaps 48 seats. The initial analysis of the election returns indicated a notable victory for Mapai due partly to the development of genuine fear among many vot- ers that Herut might become a major factor in Israel's polit- ical life: This possibility al).- peared associated in Israel ,public opinion with strong arm methods and even a vagne specter of fascism. The conse- quence was that many citizens who were disillusioned with Mapai, and might have ab- stained from voting, decided to vote for Mapai. Other voters, only vaguely loyal to a particu- lar party, voted for - Mapai out of the same fear of Herut, it was asserted. The Mapai success also - could be credited to thorough organ- ization work. Mapai held thou- -sands of small meetings in pri- vate homes to explain the party's platform. - The • huge General Zionist losses were attributed to in- ternal dissensions, lack of ap- pealing issues and organiza- tion and, possibly, resentment of a move which included the son of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi in a blatant bid for Ori- ental votes. The Communists lost votes not only among Jewish vot- ers, which was understand- able, but also among the Arabs where the Co _ mmu- nists were strongest. This may have been due to the fact that identification of the Soviet Union with President Nasser of the United Arab Republic has been less ob- vious in recent months. Balloting in Israel picked up momentum after a slow start, and by -mid-afternoon Tuesday 50 percent of the eligible vot- ers had cast their ballots, in- dicating a heavier vote than in the 1955 tally when less than three quarters of the vot- ers went to the polls. The spurt in voting followed police removal from the prox- imity of . the voting places of groups of ultra orthodox Ne- turei Karta agents who offered sums ranging up to 20 pounds for identity cards which must be presented to poll officials before a vote can be cast. The zealots promised return of the cards after the elections. Supporters of the National Religious Party were active at the polls throughout the day to disprove a last minute effort by Agudat Israel to suggest that the Chief Rabbinate Coun- cil had intervened in the elec- tion. The council made public an announcement- in reply to a query from a "religious voter" as to whether it was permitted to vote for secular parties. The rabbis replied that the council "does not assume it is- its- func- tion to intervene in political issues." Rabbi- Amram Blau, leader of the Neturei Karta, was de- tained by police after he sta- tioned himself near an-entrance to the polling station in- the Mea Shearim quarter. in Jeru- salem to deter orthodox Jews from voting on the premise that the zealots did not recog- nize the State of Israel. Rabbi • Blau • stood near the polling station "to see and be seen". and loudly recited mourn- ing prayers. Officials of the religious parties, whose poten- tial voters . Rabbi Blau had been deterring, complained that his actions violated elec- tion laws -- which forbid cam- paigning pargning or pressure near poll- ing stations. President Itzhak Ben-Zvi was among the earliest to vote, but the. first large group were orthodox Jews coming from morning prayers. Then came workers in essential services. A large proportion of the early voters were people who had decided to make election day a real holi- day with outdoor camping. Hundreds of vehicles brought voters to the polls, while spe- cial - canteens supplied poll committee members with sand- wiches. In Beersheba, cheese supplies were low after all available cheese was used for food parcels for poll commit- tee members who worked at the vote count late into the night. . Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion voted at his summer retreat at Sde Boker. Brig. Chaim Laskov, Army Chief of Staff, was the first to vote at a special army poll at head- quarters. Voting began in unseason- ably hot weather throughout the_ country. There were 2,300 polling stations for the 1,200,- 000 eligible voters who chose 120 members of the new Knesset. The voting trend of some 160,000 Israelis voting for the first time was a big question of the election. Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nis- sin was among the early voters, and after he cast his ballot he wished the polling station officials "good voting." Hassidic Rabbis were - es- corted to polling stations by singing and dancing adher- ents in demonstrations which helped to puncture efforts of zealott to persuade orthodox Jews to boycott the 'election. Eilat workers with - perma- nent residence in northern Israel were flown northward at the expense of parties. Ma- pai, for example, flew 100 supporters from Eilat and back. Lively interest in the elec- tion was shown in the Arab sections of- Israel_ where some 75,000 to 90,000 Moslems and Christians were eligible to vote. - Election day was a true holiday in Israel. Schools, banks, shops and civil services were closed to permit the people to exercise their fran- chise. The high temperature brought hundreds of families out in their Sabbath best clothes, adding to the impres- sion of a Sabbath atmosphere. That's Using Their Heads Romania Starts Terrorizing Drive on Jews The London Times reported this week that a Romanian cam- paign has been - inaugurated to terrorize Jews who desire to emigrate to -Israel.. The move, it is reported,. is intended to break the Jews' emotional:link- with Israel. Many: Jews have signed_ to. leave Romania, and -as a conse- quence there have been many arrests. Among those arrested are listed a number' of pronii- Arriving in Neiv York recently aboard the Zim Lines' nent -Jewish leaders, including SS Zion, these pretty members of the Inbar Dance Theater' Israel Hart, Kalman Bernstein, were met by the longshoremen's . strike. .The girls, born in Efraim Zinger, Dr. Ernst Hor- Yemen, revert to the customs of their people as they tot their. vath, , Dr. Led . Fried, Stefan own bags, ashore. Inbal will appear at Detroit's Masonic - Kraus, •Lajos Gardo, Frau Mag- Temple on Nov. 21 as part. of a tour of 27 cities in the U.S - dal Weussberger, David,Faibash - and Canada. Shown here, botton to top, are Hadassah BadouChe,. and many others. Dalia Kubani. Ruma Nachum and -Rachel Mori.