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Vol. XXXIX, No. 25

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Israel Retains Political Status Quo,
Mapai Loses, Liberals Fail to Gain

(Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party
lost five seats in Tuesday's national elections to the fifth Knesset.
Mapai polled an estimated 34.1 per cent of the vote to hold
42 seats, against • 47 in the last Parliament.
In the previous national elections in 1959, Mapai polled 38.2
per cent of the total vote.
_The
The Liberal Party, contesting an election for the first time
as a
of the General Zionist and Progressive parties, won
13.6 per cent of the vote and will have 16 or 17 seats in the new
Knesset. The two parties had 14 seats in the old chamber.
The Herut party, with 13.4 per cent of the vote, stood to
hold its 17 seats. The National Religious Party, with 9.9 per cent of
the vote, retained its 12 seats. The Mapam Party increased its vote
fractionally to 7.7 per cent and was sure of holding its nine seats.
Achdut Avodah Party likewise scored a fractional increase'
in its share of the vote, obtaining 6.4 per cent to hold its seven
seats.. Agudah and Poalei Agudah parties increased their share of
the vote to 5.8 per cent and will have seven seats in the new
Knesset as against six in the last Knesset.
The Communists scored heavily in the Arab areas. They in-
creased their share of the vote from 2.8 per cent to 4.3 per cent,
increasing the number of their seats from three to five. This incrase
was apparently- at the expense of the Mapai—affiliated Arab parties
who had live seats in the last Knesset. Early returns failed to
indicate the fate of the other three seats formerly held by these
_parties.

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The election results provided no great surprises. Mapai, de-
spite an intensive campaign effort, had been expected to lose sorne
seats. The Liberals had hoped to win at least 20 seats and both the
rightwing Herut and the leftwing Mapam and Achdut Avodah parties
had expected to capitalize on dissatisfaction and unrest over Mapai
economic policies and the Lavon affair.
The election leaves Premier Ben-Gurion just where he was
before the elections, with no clear and decisive mandate to form a
new government and obliged to find new bases for collaboration in
a coalitiion government with the partners with whom he fell out in
the previous regime.
As Israel took stock of its new national political setup, the
Wednesday after the Knesset elections, there was a general feeling
that the election results were just about what everybody had expected
—but not what many had secretly hoped.
Israel's President Itzhak Ben-Zvi is expected to call upon Ben-
Gurion to form a new government this week-end.
.
Mapai is disappointed • because it had hoped that its highly-
organized, very expensive campaign apparatus would at worst preserve
the party's previous strength. Some Mapai optimists even predicted
a slight increase of strength as a result of the elections.
The Liberals, on the other hand, despite indications that the
new grouping was not taking the country by storm, had hoped to
gain at least 20 seats. That hope was nurtured especially in the clos-
ing days of the campaign, when Liberal leaders thought they had
gained considerable strength among the electorate.

(Continued on Page 10)

Algerian Jews' Mass Migration
Forced by Increased Terrorism

Vier. German Majority,
Nearly All in the U.S.
Say Liebmann Is Guilty

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

FRANKFURT—A majority of West Germans
are convinced of the "personal guilt" of Adolf Eich-
mann, the Gestapo colonel who masterminded the
annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe, according
to a survey conducted by the Divo Opinion Research
Institute. The results of the survey, which were re-
leased here Tuesday, shoaled that 59 percent of a
representative sample of 1,989 persons polled were
convinced of Eichmann's personal guilt. Ninety-five
percent of those polled had some knowledge of the
trial.
About 19 percent of those responding to the
questionnaire expressed the view that the aim of
those trying Eichmann was to punish Nazi crimes
committed against the Jewish people. The 12 per-
cent who regarded Eichmann as more or less in-
nocent felt that the trial was being conducted for
"show purposes," because he allegedly murdered
Jews, or expressed the view that he "murdered
Jews on orders" or that the aim of the trial was to
aid "in agitation against Germany," or because of
"revenge" or "money."
Thirty-five percent of the respondents regarded
it as correct for Eichmann to be tried in Jerusalem
while 18 percent felt that his trial in West Germany
would have been preferable.

'Guilty' in U.S. Poll

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Americans in 21 cities,
questioned in a sample poll through man-in-the-street
interviews, believe "almost without a single excep-
tion" that Adolf Eichmann is guilty of crimes against
the Jewish people and crimes against humanity, the
New York Herald Tribune reported.
The poll was conducted by the Herald Tribune
(Continued on Page 11)

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

PARIS—Anxiety among the Algerian Jewish community continued to mount Tues-
day with an increase in terrorist activities throughout Algeria. A 60-year-old Jew, Elie
Cherbit, is in grave condition in a hospital after he was stabbed in the back near his
home in Mascara near Oran. The town's ancient Jewish community is reported seriously
concerned with the growing wave of terrorist stabbings.
Jewish emigration from Algeria has been on the increase because of the general
tensions there and, specifically, due to attacks or threats against Jews. Benjamin Heller,
president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Algeria, and Grand Rabbi Isaac
Zerbib, of Constantine, have both left, the latter for Israel. Many other rabbis are emi-
grating to Israel.
Most of the Jews who have left or are leaving Algeria fear attacks by elements of
FLN, the Moslem independence movement. But others are apparently just as concerned
with the anti-Semitism known to exist among French Algerians.
In addition to Jewish reactions to attacks and terror, causing the new exodus,
Algerian Jews are apprehensive over what may happen to their citizenship status, once
a political accommodation is achieved between the French government and the FLN.
The Jews of Algeria, numbering 130,000, enjoy French citizenship, granted to
them under the Cremieux decree in • 1870.
.
Ferhat Abbas, leader of the FLN, had pledged that, under an Arab-controlled, in-
dependent Algerian republic, Jews would be given equal rights, along with the Christian
minority and the Moslems. However, at the recent Evian peace negotiations between the
French and the FLN, the representatives of FLN flatly rejected a policy of granting dual
citizenship to any Algerians in the projected republic. Jews in Algeria fear to rely on
the good will of the FLN for the safety of their rights as full citizens, without a consti-
tutional guarantee based on a treaty between the FLN and France.
The majority of the Jews who have been leaving Algeria recently are from the
smaller towns and from among the poorer classes. However, tensions have mounted
now also among professionals, businessmen, and community leaders in the larger cen-
ters—Algiers, Oran and Constantine.

Morocco Arrests 50 Jews Who Wanted to Emigrate

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Fifty Mbrroccan Jews were arrested in northeast Morocco
on
the charge of attempting to . leave the country illegally, it was reported here from Rabat
by the Nevv York ,.Times .
The re,rport.saititelgatbe, Intercepted a truck carrying a group of Jewish families
near part : br'Nadeeante vial ich was headed for the town of Melilla in Spanish
Morocco. Moroccan authorities said the Jews were carrying false passports. An official an-
nouncement said the 50 Jews were taken to Oujda, where they will be brought to
trial.

