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52—Friday, April 5, 1974

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Jewish News Special. Israel
Correspondent
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lishment of the state of Is-
rael, is -going through a se-
vere crisis. There is no lead-
er in sight who could enforce
the discipline necessary in a
political party, particularly
one in power.
Until the Yom-Kippur War
Mrs. Golda Meir was regard-
ed as the strong personality
and anthority,'abTe to enforce
such discipline, but the war
has severely damaged her
prestige. This led to a power
struggle between several of
the leaders, some of whom
went so far as to vote- against
th? government in the Knes-
set or abstain from voting.
The former secretary gen-
eral of Histadrut, Yitzhak
Ben-Aharon, resigned, be-
cause he felt the party lea-
dership did not give him its
support. He often criticized
the policies of Mrs. Meir,
Pinhas Sapir and Haim Bar-
Lev. In the Knesset he voted
against Sapir's additional
budget after the minister of
finance abolished subsidies
on some basic products. When
the new government was pre-
sented to the Knesset by Mrs.
Meir, he abstained from vot-
ing, explaining this extraor-
dinary step by the necessity
for a government eomposed
of new and young members.
The former general secre-
tary of the Labor Party, Arye
Eliav, also abstained on this
occasion. He is one of the
staunchest opponents of the
government's policy in the
occupied territories. Togeth-
er With Ben-Aharon he broke
the party faction's discipline
in the Knesset.
The third leader of the La-
bor Party was Abraham Ofer,
who was chairman of the
party's election headquar-
ters. As general director of
the•biggest building company
in Israel, Shikun, he had
hoped to become minister of
housing. Until, recently he
was a 'supporter of Pinhas
Sapir, but since the recent
elections he has gone into op-
position and stayed away
from the Knesset for the vote
of confidence for the govern-
m ent.
The fourth "revolutionary"
is the leader of the Jerusalem
party branch and chairman
of the Labor Alignment fac-
tion and the coalition in the
Knesset, Moshe Baram. He
had hoped to become minister
of labor replacing Joseph Al-
mogi, who has been elected
mayor of Haifa. It was
thought that Itzhak Rabin
would become minister of de-
fense replacing Moshe Dayan
when the latter announced
his resignation. But Dayan-
later agreed to withdraw his
resignation, and Rabin was
appointed minister of labor.
This caused the conflict with
Baram and the Jerusalem
branch of the party. In turn,
it led to the resignation of
Adi Jaffe, former political
secretary to the late Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol, from
the task of whip to the Knes-
set faction as a protest over
the way Baram's prospective
appointment had been hand-
led.
Haifa Mayor Joseph Al-
magi also has his resentments
against the leaders of the
Labor Party, especially Mrs.
Meir who, a few years ago,
tried to influence him to re-
linquish his office as minis-
ter of labor in favor of Israel
Galili and to become a min-
ister without portfolio. Now

he has been organizing the
Haifa 'party branch against
the Tel Aviv branch, coming
out in support of the Jerusa-
lem branch with Moshe
Bonin.
The Labor Party also has
trouble with Yossi Sarid, the
young Knesset member who
was party spokesman during
the last election campaign.
He is strongly opposed to
Dayan's policy. After the el-
ections he said in an unoffi-
cial meeting that he would do
everything to hinder Dayan
from becoming defense min-
ister again. In the new Knes-
set he provoked the anger
of the Rafi group by heckling
Dayan on- delicate issues con-
cerning the army. Sarid is a
supporter of Sapir, but with
these antics he has given Sa-
pir a headache. He also in-
tended to abstain from voting
cn confidence for the new
government, but in the end
he yielded Sapir's appeal and
voted for the government, is-
suing a declaration that he is
in favor of replacing Golda
Meir and Moshe Dayan
whom he held to a large de-
gree responsible for the trag-
ic events before and during
the Yom Kippur War.
The secretary general of
the Israeli Teachers' Union,
Shalom Levin, who - is a La-
bor Party Knesset member,
refused to join the Knesset
committee on education and
culture to protest at not hav-
ing been elected to the com-
mittee on security and for-
eign affairs.
There also is trouble with
the Ahdut Avoda. group,
which wanted Moshe Cannel
to become a member of the

Ohm for Moshavim

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Some 6,000 olim are to settle
in 36 moshavim within the
next two years, said Avraham
Rosenman of the Jewish Ag-
ency.

government or chairman of
the security and foreign af-
fairs commission instead of
Chaim Zadok, who has been
appointed minirster of justice
in the new cabinet. But the
earty executive decided that
Rafi m e mber Yitzhak Navon
eiellld be the new chairman
of the committee, as a con-
sequence of which the Ahdut
Avoda faction boycotted the
election meeting.
Another crisis is brewing
in the alignment with Ma-
pam, who are demanding
three seats in the new cabi-
net instead of two, arguing
that the other coalition part-
ies, the National Religious
and Independent Liberals,
each have an additional
member. Mapam decided to
boycott all meetings - of the
Alignment Knesset faction
for two months and some lea-
ders of Mapam demanded
their factions leave the align-
ment.

The leaders of the Labor
Party feel that they lost the
authority to uphold party dis-
cipline. Now the interim-re-
port of the Agranat Commis-
sion, due to be published
next month, is keenly await-
ed. This commission is inves-
tigating the mistakes and
shortcomings before and dur-
ing the Yam Kippur War. If
this report finds some leaders
of the Labor .Party guilty of
mistakes and failures,
changes in the party leader-
ship and government may be
expected which could lead
either to greater unity and
inner discipline or to the La-
bor Party Alignment splitting
up into separate factions.
The Labor Party and Align-
ment need a strong leader
like the late David Ben-
Gurion. They admit needing
a miracle to uphold party
unity. The coming two months
will be decisive for the fate
and future of the Israeli ta-
bor Party.

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