Israel Knesset
Streamlines
Election Laws
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Jewish Book Council
Awards 4 Authors _for
`Best Books in 1960'
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Four
cash awards for the best Jewish
books published in 1960 in
fiction, poetry and the juvenile
field were made here this week
at the annual meeting of the
Jewish Book Council of the
National Jewish Welfare Board.
Edward L. Wallant of Nor-
walk, Conn., received the $250
Harry and Ethel Daroff Memo-
rial fiction award for his novel,
"The Human Season."
The Harry and Florence Kov-
ner Memorial poetry awards of
$100 each went to Dr. Ephraim
E. Lisitsky of New Orleans for
his volume of Hebrew poetry,
"K'mo Hayom Rad" (As the
Day Wanes), published in Tel
Aviv; and to Joseph Rubinstein
of New York for his Yiddish
work, "Megillath Russland."
Regina Tor, of Poughkeepsie,
won the Isaac Siegel Memorial
award of $250 for 1960's best
Jewish juvenile work in English
published in the U.S., entitled
"Discovering Israel."
In addition to the individual
awards, the Council voted cita-
tions to six libraries meeting
stated c r i t e r i a for Jewish
libraries. The citations were
given to the libraries of Temple
Emanu-El, Birmingham, Ala.;
Temple Mishkan Tefila, Chest-
nut Hill, Mass.; the Hillel Li-
brary at the University of
California at Los Angeles; the
Wood Library of Beth David
Cong., Philadelphia; the Falk
Memorial Library of Temple
Sinai, Pittsburgh; and Cong.
Beth Israel, Camden, N.J.
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JERUSALEM—Israel's parlia-
ment approved Tuesday chang-
es in the electioi law which
will make it more difficult
for splinter parties to develop
and which bars electioneering
of any kind by public servants
who have administrative auth-
ority.
The law, which was adopted
in clause-by-clause voting, re-
quires a deposit of 5,000 pounds
for a new list of candidates in
an election which will be for-
feited if the new list fails to
obtain one per cent of the valid
votes cast in that election.
Prime Minister David en-
Gurion's Mapai Party fa red
on
less stringent restricti
new parties and th la
er
t
approved by vo
era P ty
parties. T n
the clause
also vote aga
it was un-
on the gr ds t
t allegedly
democratic ecat
favored ye d in erests a ns
o ca
newcomers to the
e hat
use p
arena. The
ill
the amount to be , fo
00
be only 1,000 of t
pound deposit in the ent the
list is invalidated b e. Isr
Central Election Cciimitte
The measure
ants
tioneering by ,
unici-
such as me
ncy and
pality, the
Fund ap-
the Jewish' Na
e of
plies to,;; ny
the
lie bo • w
tive deels
mak
ill' be
Su
or
ring, publ
ectio
ely, wi n their own work
ere.
a or els
The pro • al which w
apai
involved
dopted aga
Mapai
ar •
versus oth
favoring an a ment under
which the ban on election activ-
ity would apply only to the in-
dividual's work area. The
stronger proposal, offered by
the Mizrachi, the Mapam and
Achdut Avodah, passed by a
slim majority.