Herut-Liberal List's Strong Showing in Histadrut Election Worries Map al

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire

HAPPY
NEW
YEAR

against the Herut-Liberal (Gahal)
to The Jewish News)
TFT, AVIV — Prime Minister joint list which emerged from Sun- ment and the country's image," hers and the "clear landslide
party leaders said after the meet- against the alignment."

Levi Eshkol and other leaders of
the Mapai-Ahdut Avodah alignment
decided Tuesday to concentrate the
major portion of their campaign
for the Nov. 2 Knesset election

Dov Joseph Quits
Illapai Role; Angry
Over His Listing

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — Justice Minister
Dov Joseph formally resigned
Wednesday from the Mapai-Ahdut
Avodah election list for the parlia-
mentary election of Nov. 2.
In a letter to Mapai Secretary
Reuven Barkatt, he noted he had
been assigned to the 118th place
on the list a n d
that this was
done "without
my consent and
without my au-
thority." The
maximum num-
ber of names a
party can list is
120 for the corm
ponding number
of seats in parliament. Placement
at the bottom of the list virtually
guaranteed that Joseph would not
be reelected.
The placement of the justice
minister's name at the bottom of
list was believed due to his vote
in the party central committee
against the expulsion of former
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
and six of his followers on charges
they split the party for forming
an independent list, the Israel
Workers Party (Rafi) for the
Knesset election.
Meanwhile, the Mapai-Ahdut
Avodah alignment leadership
named Deputy Prime Minister
Abba Eban and Transport Min-
ister Moshe Carmel to key posts
in the alignment parliamentary
election organization. Eban was
named head of publicity, and
Carmel was named head of or-
ganization for the election drive.
The alignment campaign com-
mittee announced plans for a
major propaganda campaign aimed
mainly at the "indifferent" labor
voters who did not vote in Sun-
day's elections to the Histadrut,
Israel's Labor Federation. T h e
goal will be to induce them to vote
in the Knesset balloting. Results
of the Histadrut elections a r e
widely interpreted as forecasts of
voting for parliament. The align-
ment slate suffered a severe loss
Sunday, as compared with the
total votes of Mapai and Ahdut
Avodah for the fourth knesset (see
above).
Ben-Gurion's Israel Workers List
named former Housing Minister
Josef Almogi as head of its cam-
paign organization. Former Chief
of Staff Zvi Tsur, a Rafi candidate
parliament, will also take an
,live part in Rafi election efforts.
(In a related development, the
alignment treasurer reported that
the joint slate had spent 3,966,000
pounds ($1,322,000) in election
outlays up to the Histadrut elec-
tions. The joint Liberal-H e r u t
(Gahal) list announced it had
spent 1,190,000 pounds ($400,000)
in the same period. Both parties
claimed their accounts had been
checked by auditors. Previously,
the two groups had accused each
other of spending "hundreds of
millions" in the election cam-
paigns.)

An analysis of the situation of
Argentinian Jewry was given to
the American section of the World
Jewish Congress by Dr. LEON
PEREZ, of Buenos Aires, vice-
president of DAIA, the repres-
entative body of Argentinian Jew-
ry, an affiliate of the World Jew-
ish Congress. Dr. Perez, who met
with American Jewish leaders dur-
ing a brief stop-over in New York,
said that the threat of anti-Semit-
ism was still a matter of concern
to the country's 450,000 Jews.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 24, 1965-5

day's Histadrut elections as the ing. They also decided to aim at
second largest political force among local coalitions with Mapam in
the seven lists that competed in most of the workers councils
the Labor Federation balloting.
throughout the country.
The decision was made at a
Commenting on the elections,
meeting of Premier Eshkol and Premier Eshkol said that "Gahal's
the other leaders after tabulations vote in the Histadrut elections is a
covering 90 per cent of the grave warning to organized labor."
Histadrut vote showed that the The premier attacked Rafi and
alignment had polled slightly more Ben-Gurion for refusing to accept
than 50 per cent of the votes.
the decisions of the state and the
Tuesday's tabulations gave Mapai Party institutions. Eshkol
Mapam 14 per cent; Ben-Gurion's
charged that Rafi in effect paved
Israel workers List (Rafi) 12 to the way for the strong emergence
13 per cent; the Independent of Gahal in the Histadrut.
Liberals (who refused to join
Replying to this, Shimon Peres,
the Herut-Liberal list) 4.7 per
a Rabbi leader, asked the premier
cent; the Mikounis-Sneh faction
why "he did not prevent the split
of the Communists (supported
when it was completely in his
mainly by Jews) 1.5 per cent;
power to do so."
and the Wilner-Toubi (Arab-sup-
(In London, meanwhile, Foreign
ported) Communist faction .5 per Minister
Golda Meir, a leader of
cent.
the Mapai-Ahdut Avoda who stop-
The results of the remaining 10
in the British capital en route
per cent of the ballots cast, com- ped
to the session of the United Na-
prising votes by military personnel tions
General Assembly, said that
and Isarelis overseas, will not be she hoped
the alignment elements
known for another three days.
would work harder for the Knesset
In directing most of their efforts election.)
against the Gahal, the Mapai-Ahdut
Gahal circles said that Eshkol's
Avoda alignment will try to con- statement reflected the confusion
vince Israelis that an "increase that beset the alignment in view
in power of the right-wing move- of the "unprecedented success"
ment endangers the labor move- of Gahal among the Histadrut mem-

In efforts to bring out the vote,
the various factions mobilized
thousands of local organizers, with
taxi cabs being dispatched to the
homes of stragglers to take them
to the 3,000 polling stations. Hist-
adrut members abroad, from Green-
land to Japan, also were voting,
as crew members on Israeli ships
at sea cast their ballots, with
the results sent by radio to Israel.

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