36 Friday, January 28, 1977
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Mapam Indicates It Will Stay in Labor Alignment
its veteran leaders, ap-
peared to be satisfied
with small changes
agreed to by the Labor
Party's political sub-
committee with respect to
territorial concessions.
Meir Talmi, Mapam's
secretary general, said he
believed that Labor was
meeting Mapam's politi-
cal demands, more or less,
though he would reserve
final judgment until the
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But political observers
believe Mapam is increas-
ingly reluctant to face the
electorate on its own.
Labor is anxious to pre-
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The political subcom-
mittee, consisting of
Labor's influential inner
circle, has been meeting
regularly during the past
month to hammer out a
platform sufficiently
doveish to placate
Mapam on territorial is-
sues but .still acceptable
to Labor's hard-liners
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the Labor Alignment be-
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last weekend.
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Moshe Dayan.
Its sessions have been
stormy and the conces-
sions to Mapam's views
have been small.
At the Labor subcom-
mittee meeting last
Thursday, agreement
was reached to state in
the platform that territo-
rial compromise holds
good for "all sectors"
without specifically men-
tioning Judaea-Samaria
which is the crucial atea.
.11- was also agreect in
the written platform to
eliminate the word
"genuine" when speaking
of a peace settlement,
meaning that Israel
would entertain some
territorial compromises
for less than a full peace
with the Arabs. Mapam
seems to accept this.
Minister-
But
Without-Portfolio Israel
Galili observed that there
will be an oral platform as
well as a written one and
the former would make
clear that while com-
promises for less than a
full peace is possible in
the Sinai and Golan
Heights, there will be no
compromise on the West
Bank without
"genuine" peace settle-
ment.
In its Wednesday ses-
sion, the Labor Party's
subcommittee on political
affairs drafted a platform
plank stating that Israel
would be ready for ter-
ritorial compromises
within the framework of a
peace agreement..
Reports from Jerusalem
indicate that Israel's polit-
ical pot is bubbling vigor-
ously as the various fac-
tions and new movements
prepare for the May 17th
elections.
Reports and rumors
abound of new align-
ments, possible mergers,
defections and reconcilia-
tions among office-
seekers and the strains
are already showing.
The Labor Party ,suf-
This gave rise tc ,
fered another jolt last rumors that the Yom
Thursday when Dr. Yiz- Kippur War hero may re- \
rael Katz, former head of join Likud which he quit
the National Insurance last year to form his own
Institute, resigned and movement.
joined Prof. Yigal Yadin's
But Sharon denied this
new Democratic Move- and one of his supporters.
ment for Change.
Prof. Ezra Zohar, said
Katz, who once headed there was little chance that
a special commission set Shlomzion would merge
up by Premier Yitzhak with Likud after the elec-
Rabin to tackle the prob- tions.
lem of children of under-
Stress and strain is evi-
privileged families, deli- dent in the Nationa'
vered a parting shot.
ligious Party w .
He charged that the former Interior Ministe-r
Labor Party lacks social Yosef Burg is trying to
leadership and said its fai- form an alignment with
lure to adopt his commis- the NP's "young guard",-
sion's recommendations and religious settlement
was a severe disappoint- movement headed by
former Welfare Minister
ment.
Yadin's group, which Zevulun Hammer and
seems to be attracting Yehuda Ben Meir.
poor urban dwellers, is
If he succeeds it would
having internal difficul- isolate former Religious-
ties of its own.
Affairs Minister Yitzhak
The affiliation with it of Rafael. The latter has in--
Shmuel Tamir, of the dicated that if he is given _I
Free Center faction, a a low spot on the NRP's
former constituent of election list he would quit
Likud, and Tamir's col- the party and run on a list
league, Akiva Noff, trou- of his own.
bles some of Yadin's orig-
Labor, meanwhile, is
inal supporters who view trying to prevent a simi-
the move as a shift to the lar split by Rabbi
right.
Menahem Hacohen who
a They want to balance is thinking of running or -
Tamir by merging with the Knesset on a separate
the leftist Civil Rights religious workers list.
Party but so far the CRP
Both Rabin and Defense _
is ignoring all overtures. Minister Shimon Peres
Before joining Yadin's have met with Hacohen te -
movement, Tamir and Nof try to convince him to re-
announced their resigna- main in Labor ranks.
tions from the Knesset.
Labor's moment of
Yadin, who attended a
press conference by truth will arrive at its -
Tamir, termed the resig- convention next month
nations unprecedented in when the party must de-
cide whether to rally
the country's political under
the leaership of
life.
Meanwhile, Gen. Ariel Rabin or switch to Peres.
Sharon, whose new The race for thc. Israeli
Shlomzion movement is premiership has_ widened
having difficulty getting as former foreign minis- c
off the ground, had a ter Abba Eban an-
meeting at his Rehovoth nounced his candidacy
home with a key figure of Monday in the national
Likud.. • elections May 17.
Israel Honors Three Gentiles
for Aiding Jews in Holocaust
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Three women who risked
their lives to save Jews
during the Holocaust
were honored and each
was presented with the
Medal of the Just at the
Israeli Consolate in New
York.
The three women, Mrs.
Lydia Van Zwol-
Nardlund of Jackson
Heights, N.Y., Mrs. Ger-
maine Belinne of New
Jersey and Mrs. Josefa
Oken-Polanska of Poland,
who recently arrived in
the U.S., were presented
with the medal by Israel's
Consul General in New
York, Uri Ben Ari, who
cited the "bravery and
human kindness they
showed" to Jews during
the Holocaust.
Mrs. Belinne and her
family helped 35 Jews
during the Naxi occupa-
tion of Belgium, by feed-
ing them and supplying
them with forged papers.
As a 15-year-old _girl,
Mrs. Nardlund helped
hide 450 Jews in her native
Pelp, Holland.
Mrs. Polanska, who was
also 15 at the time, hid a
Jewish family for a year-
and-a-half in the small
Polish town of Rodnik,
where no Jews lived.
The three women were
recommended for the
award by the Commission
for Designation of the
Just of Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem.
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West Bank Arabs
Would Avoid War
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Former Defense Mit er ,
Moshe Dayan wro
Yediot Achronot that the
Arabs of the adminis-
tered territories are un-
likely to join Israel's:—
enemies in support ofl
another war.
Dayan said it was un-
likely that the Arabs
would want to become re-
fugees like their brethren
of Lydda and Ramla 30
years ago, nor would they
advocate an Israeli-
Jordan war that would ,j
automatically turn their
homes on the West Bank,
into a battlefield.
Dayan said these fac-
tors would lead the Pales
tinian and West Bank-
Arabs to seek a political
solution.