THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 13, 19 59-0
Possible' Cabinet Compositions
Being Discussed by Mapai Chiefs
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she does not want to retain that post in the new govern-
ment, but the Premier is said to be insistent and hope-
ful that he can persuade his long-time associate to
remain.
Former Ambassador Abba S. Eban was expected
to enter the Cabinet as a minister without portfolio if
Mrs._ Mein remained in the Foreign Ministry. Zalman
Aranne, the Minister of Education, may drop out of the
Cabinet to accept election as Speaker of the Knesset.
In that case, the education portfolio might go to Eban.
Among other Mapai leaders mentioned for Cabinet
posts were Gen. Moshe Dayan, Giora Josephtal, secre-
tary-general of Mapai, and Yosef Almogi, chairman of
the Haifa Labor Council, who directed the Mapai victory
campaign. Almogi also was being mentioned for the
post of secretary-general of the party in succession to
Josephtal.
Mordechai Namir, Minister of Labor, is expected
to drop out of the Cabinet to take. election as Mayor of
Tel Aviv. Kadish Luz, Minister of Agriculture, wants
to retire. Both are Mapai members.
The completed count in the
Jerusalem municipal elections
showed that although Mapai
ran far ahead of all other par-
ties and won .eight of the 21
seats in the Municipal Council,
it will be unable to form an
, administration unless the unity
of the religious parties is
broken.
Mapai's only possible allies
in the council are the Progress-
ives and Achdut Avodah, each of
which has one seat, and the
combination would still be short
of a majority.
The Herut Party won four
seats, the Mizrachi parties and
their Iraqi settlers affiliate,
four, and the Agudist parties,
three. If Jerusalem's municipal
politics folloW their customary
trend, the city administration
will be in the hands of a Re-
ligious Bloc-Herut coalition.
Election procedure for the
twin posts of Chief Rabbi will
get underway next week with
the formation of an eight-
man committee to convene
the '72-man electoral body.
The current five-year. term
for the posts expires Feb. 18.
Four members of the eight-
man committee _will be appoint-
ed by the government and four
by the Rabbinate. The 72-man
body which will name the Chief
Rabbis, will be composed of 24
representatives of the country's
municipalities and 48 appointees
of the Rabbinate. The electors
will vote for a successor to the
late Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog,
while the present Rishon Le
Zion (Sephardi Chief Rabbi),
Yitzhak Nissim, will be up for
re-election.
The principal candidates to
succeed Chief Rabbi Herzog are
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,
of Boston, and the Chief Chap-
lain of the Armed Forces, Rabbi
Shlomo Goren.
Premier Ben-Gurion reported-
ly advocated formation of a
coalition with the General Zion-
ists with a view to carrying out
. electoral reforms. Mapai and
General Zionists are the only
two groups which, before the
elections, favored a change in
the present proportional repre-
sentation to a constituency sys-
tem which will ultimately give
the country two major parties.
Having suffered heavy losses
in the election, it is doubtful
now whether the General Zion-
ists are still interested in advo-
cating electoral changes.
It is understood the young
Mapai leadership is opposed to
a coalition with the General
Zionists. They want the same
composition as the outgoing
coalition, namely Mapai, Ma-
pam, Achdut Avodah, and the
Progressives. Others suggest
even a broader coalition Cab-
inet by adding to the above
parties also the National Re-
ligious party.
At a party meeting the fol-
lowing decisions were adopted:
1. Mapai is willing to nego-
tiate for a "wall to wall"
coalition, which would in-
elude all Knesset parties from
Agudat Israel to Mapam, with
the exception of right-wing
Herut and the Communists.
2. Former Tel Aviv Chief
Rabbi Yaacov Toledano must
remain in the new Cabinet.
Rabbi Toledano accepted the
post of Minister for Religious
Affairs when the National Re-
ligious party quit the coali-
tion over the "Who Is a Jew"
identity dispute. This deci-
sion means that the National
Religious party could rejoin
the coalition only on the con-
dition that they accept port-
folios other than the Re-
ligious Ministry.
3. The Cabinet is to be re-
organized by possibly abolish-
ing some ministries and merg-
ing others. One ministry,
whose abolition may be
sought is the Ministry of Po-
lice, while the Ministries of
Labor and Development may
be merged.
Observers feel that when
Ben-Gurion resumes office at
the head of a new government,
he will act swiftly on a program
to prepare Israel for-_-the time
when West German reparations
cease and United States Gov-
ernment aid diminishes.
Ben-Gurion, therefore, is ex-
pected to seek a wage freeze
and abolition of various hidden
subsidies, plus higher customs
and taxes which may increase
prices on the domestic market.
Mapai leaders were understood
to consider the increased vote
for their party as a mandate
for action and their increased
strength in the Knesset as free-
ing them from undue concern
over the opposition from left
and right to unpopular changes.
Ben-Gurion summed up the
election outcome with the
comment that Achdut Avodah
—which dropped two or three
seats—lost to Herut, which
picked up two seats. He said
the General Zionists, whose
leaders he blamed for the
party losses, also lost to Herut.
He said he was convinced
many Herut members voted
for Mapai.
The apparent slight gain of
Mapam, he said, was at the
expense of the Communists. He
was critical of Gen. Yigal Alon
of the Achdut Avodah and
Menachem Beigin of Herut. He
said the two leaders were
wrong in their campaigning and
deserved their disappointments.
The Prime Minister disclaimed
any personal victory and said
it was his party which deserved
the credit.
etroiters B oost I srael Bond Action Day Marks
Removal of Office to Northwest
Stock Sale of
Friends, workers and buyers a 10 a.m. breakfast meeting
Israel's Super-Sol of Israel Bonds . are invited to Sunday, its first at the new
Detroit business leaders are
spurring the development of Is-
rael's economy by aiding the
sale here in Detroit of the final
block of shares offered for sale
in the expansion issue of Super-
Sol Ltd., Israel supermarket
organization.
Nathan W. and John Lurie,
Al and Tom Borman, Paul Zuck-
erman, Norman Allan and Sam
Frankel are sponsoring briefing
meetings within the next two
weeks for friends, associates
and potential investors in the
young firm, which is moving
ahead with plans for four new
stores in the next year, and
ultimate construction of at least
20 supermarkets.
Nathan Lurie is chairman of
the board of Super-Sol, which
recently paid its first dividend
after just one year of operation.
Paul Zuckerman is a director
of the corporation, while the
Borman brothers, John Lurie.
Allan and Frankel are all in-
vestors.
Two young Detroiters, Alan
Feinberg and Herbert Hordes,
now living in Israel, originated
the idea for the company, and
are now actively managing it.
Offered for sale in Detroit
are the final 50,000 shares of
300,000 originally offered at $11
a share. The balance of the new
issue was sold in Canada during
the last three months.
The final shares are being of-
fered in Detroit because of the
support initially given the com-
pany here. Nathan Lurie said,
so that Detroiters will be en-
abled to invest in Israel -in this
way.
Further information and a
prospectus may be obtained
from the Super-Sol office here,
by calling WO. 3-4711.
as one that would aid the Ben-
Gurion government in coping
more effectively with both do-
mestic and foreign problems.
The victory of Mapai also was
received with satisfaction in
British Foreign Office circles,
JTA reported from London.,
Sources in the Foreign Office
emphasized that the results
were considered a contribution
to Middle East regional sta-
bility.
The Mapai results, following
on the re-election of Prime Min-
ister Harold MacMillan, indi-
cated that no change was likely
in Anglo-Israel relations which
are now considered harmonious
and without any special prob-
lems.
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Times' Editorial Cites
`Evidence of Stability'
U.S., Britain Pleased
at Mapai's Victory
In an editorial in Saturday's
Detroit Times, the election re-
sults were termed an "evidence
of stability in the only democ-
racy in the Middle East, and
hence satisfying to other de-
mocracies in the West.
"His many American friends
will be pleased by the election
of Abba Eban, former Ambas-
sador to the United States, to
the Knesset. Other younger
men include Moshe Dayan, who
commanded the Suez campaign,
and Shimon Peres, former di-
rector general of the Defense
Ministry.
"Mr. Ben-Gurion will still
have to form a coalition to gov-
ern, but his task will be easier
than in the past, and he will
have far greater freedom of
action. The chief source of sat-
isfaction is that Israel, vital
and young, is growing in confi-
dence and security."
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
highly-placed U.S. Government
source welcomed the Mapai
party's election success as her-
alding greater stability for Is-
rael.
The election was viewed here
SHIRLEY GRAHAM, author
and lecturer, will speak at the
Global Books Forum on the
subject "Africa on the March"
Nov. 24, 8 p.m. at McGregor
Memorial Center.
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attend the housewarming party
and Israel Bond Action Day this
coming Sunday, beginning at 9
a.m., at the new Israel Bond of-
fice, 8522 W. McNichols Road.
- Festivities will continue all
day until 5 p.m., as • the Bond
organization celebrates its mov-
ing into the northwest area, bet-
ter to be able
to serve the
entire Jewish
coinmunity of
Detroit, ac-
cording to
Tom Barman,
general chair-
man.
Ref resh-
Borman ments will be
served, and an interesting pro-
gram has been planned for the
day, Borman said.
Israel Bond Action Day will
see the climax of the High Holy
Day appeal cash collection cam-
paign.
The Detroit Israel Bond exec-
utive board is scheduled to hold
office.
The Bond office will com-
plete its move into its new quar-
ters from its former space in
the David Stott Building within
two weeks. In the meantime,
staff and volunteer activities
will continue uninterruptedly,
with several major activities on
the calendar, including a Wo-
men's Division "Merci Beau-
coup" luncheon at the Jewish
Center on Nov. 19, a tribute
dinner to Ambassador Avraham
Harman of Israel on Nov. 29 at
the Statler-Hilton Hotel, and the
opening of the Bnai Brith Is-
rael Bond Drive on December 1.
Vladimiritzer Relief Fund
to Offer Games Party Dec. 1
The Vladimiritzer Emergency
Relief Fund is planning a
games party for Dec. 1 at 18450
Wyoming. Co-chairmen are
Mrs. P. Rossen and Mrs. J. H.
Kaufman. Tickets and informa-
tion may be obtained by calling
BR 3-6023 or UN 1-5610.
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