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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 20, 1977 5

Results of Tuesday's Crucial Israel National Elections

JERSUALEM (JTA) —
The following results of Is-
rael's national elections are
based on imcomplete re-
turns from Wednesday
morning. They reflect ap-
proximately half of the
more than two million votes
cast in 3,800 precincts.

According to political ana-
lyst Hanoch Smith, move-
ments of one or two of the
120 Knesset seats are still
possible — especially after
the army vote becomes
known in a few days (the
army vote is expected to
favor Likud).

'section results:
7 Akud, 41, Labor Alignment
33, Democratic Movement for
Change, 14, National Religious
Party 12, Rakah 6, Agudat Yis-
rael 4, Poalei Agudat Yisrael 1,
Shell 2, Flatto-Sharon 2 (since

Sharon ran alone his second
seat votes will be divided up
among the other parties under
the complicated "Bader-Ofer"
system of sharing overspill
votes), Shlomzion 2, Independ-
ent Liberals 1, Citizens Rights
Movement 1, Labor-affiliated
Arab list 1.

In comparison with the 1973
election this meant a rise for-
Likud of 2, a drop for Labor of
18, a rise for NRP of 2, a rise
for Rakah of 2, a rise for
Aguda of 1, a drop for Indep.
Libs. of 3, a drop for CRM of 2,
a drop for Labor-affiliated
Arabs of 2.
For Labor, of course, it
meant the heaviest defeat in Is-
rael's history — and the almost
certain loss of governmental
power. The official results will
be published in 10 days and
then President Katzir, after
consultations with all the par-
ties, will call on Begin to form

a government. Begin will have
42 days to achieve this. If he
fails the president can ask an-
other party leader to attempt
it.
In all, coalition attempts can
continue for up to 119 days
under the law.
The results will mean the fol-
lowing constitution of the ninth
Knesset:

LIKUD: Menahem Begin, gmcha Eh-
rlic, Yigal Hurwitz, Ezer Weizman (ex-
pected to be named defense minister),
Moshe Nissim, Yitzhak Shamir, Gi-
deon Patt, Moshe Arens, Yehezkel Fin-
min, Eliezer Shostak, David Levi, Av-
raham Sharir, Yoram Aridor, Pessab
Grupper, Moshe Shamir. Hilel Seidel,
Guela Cohen, Yitzhak Modal, Hahn
Corfu, Avraham Katz, Yigal Cohen,
Eitan Livni, Shmuel Rechtman, Yitz-
hak Berman, Mordechai Zippori, Dov
Shilanski, Amnon Lin, Yosef Rom,
Gustav Badian, Ehud Olmert, Moshe
Katzav, Roni MUG, Sarah Doron, Mi-
chael Daiskell, Zalman Shuval, Meir
Cohen, Moshe Meron, Kamal Nasser

A-Din, Yitzhak Peretz, and Yosef
Tamir.
LABOR: Peres, Anon, Eban, Hilel,
Meir Talmi, Hahn Zadok, Moshe
Dayan, Shoshana Arbeli-Almoslino,
Yitzhak Navon, Naftali Feder, Hahn
Barley, Gad Yaacobi, Aharon Yadlin,
Yehoshua Rabinowitz, Yeruham Mesh-
el, Tamar Eshel, Amos Hadar, Danny
Rosalio, Cha&a Grossman, Yitzhak
Rabin, Menahem Hacohen, Eli Moyal,
Moshe Shahai, Eliahu Speizer, Uzi
Baram, Moshe Amer, Jacques Amk,
Yehezkell Ezkel-Zakkai, Ora Namk,
Yossi Sarid, Adiel Amorai and Micha
Harish.
NRP: Yosef Burg, Hahn Druckman,
Zevulun Hammer, Aharon Abu-Hat-
zeira, Avraham Melamed, yehuda
Ben-Meir, Eliezer Aftabbi, David
Glass (Gal), Zerah Warhaftig, Ben-
'ion Rubin, Sarah Stern-Katan and
Pinhas Sheinman.
DMC: Yigael Yadin, Amnon Rubins-
tein, Meir Amit, Shmuel Tamir,Meir
Zorea, Stef Wertheimer, Shmuel Tole-
dano, Akiva Nof, Binyamin Halevi,
Assaf Yagnri, David Golomb, Shafik
Assad, Zeidan Atashi and Mordechai
Virshayskl.

Yadin's DMC, Voter 'Punishment' Hurt Labor

By DAVID LANDAU

JERUSALEM(JTA)—When
Prof. Yigael Yadin told the
nation in a television inter-
view less than a year ago
that he was thinking of ven-
turing into politics he
stated candidly that his aim
would be to set up a move-
ment which would win
enough votes to make itself
indispensable in the forma-
tion of any feasible coali-
tion. -
He wanted to ensure, in
the only possible and effec-
tive way under the present
political system, that the
radical changes and re-
forms which he considered
vital were indeed carried
out.
Thus, his irrevoccable
condition to any potential
coalition partner that new
elections be held within a
short time (initially it was
to be six months, but now it
is two years) under a new
system — the constituency
system.
For Yadin believes that
the present proportional sys-
tem is the root cause of
many of Israel's ills.
Today, Yadin may be said
to have almost achieved his
goal. Almost, but not quite.
For the Democratic Move-
ment for Change is not (it
seems on present projec-
tions) unavoidably in-
dispensable to Likud —they
can form a coalition with
Shlomzion and all the reli-
gious parties. Nor is he "in-
dispensable" to Labor —be-
cause even with DMC,
Labor would still be a long
way from the 61 minimal
figure. There again, without
at least the NRP (as well
as some of the small lists)
Labor-led -coalition is
ceivable.
This is not to say that
DMC failed. On the con-
trary, its rise from nothing
to a most respectable show-
ing in the polls is the suc-
cess story of the election.
But Yadin's calculation
that his party would "hold
the balance" has apparent-
ly been upset — by the very
success of DMC in swinging
votes away from Labor and

41,

thereby rendering Labor

too weak really to have any-
thing but the most remote
outside chance of remain-
ing in office, and also by

DMC's patent -failure to
make any inroads in Likud
support — thereby leaving
Likud immeasurably strong-
er than had been forseen.
It is the religious parties,
rather than DMC, which
hold the crucial balance
and which will doubtless ex-
tort maximal concessions to
themselves in the coalition
negotiations that will not
begin.
Likud can conceivably
form a coalition together
with NRP, Aguda and
Poalei Aguda (and Flatto-
Sharon), leaving DMC out
altogether. This will not
give it a very comfortable
majority, granted — but the
very feasibility of this com-
bination is enough to give
Likud the power and ability
to stand firm against
DMC's demands.
/The likeliest prospect, ac-
cording to well placed pun-
dits, is that Likud will in-
itially open talks with the
NRP, Aguda and the DMC,
in the hope of securing a
government with a com-
portable . majority (of
around 14 or 15). It will
prove amendable to many
of the religious parties' de-
mands — particularly the
demand to amend the Law
of Return so as to insist on
Orthodox conversions only.
Then, faced with the alter-
native of agreeing to fur-
ther religious demands
from Aguda (tighter Sab-
bath enforcement, abolish-
ment of girl's compulsory
enlistment) or DMC's de-
mand for electoral reform
and elections in two years,
Likud will prefer the for-
mer. After all, following 29
years in the wilderness it
will be reluctant to chance
losing power again after
only two years in the
saddle.
Another obstacle on the
course of Likud-DMC nego-
tiations is the patent differ-
ence over- policy-per-
ceptions regarding the West
Bank. Likud is committed
to outright annexation, the
DMC to territorial con-
cessions there in return for
peace (but keeping the Jor-
dan River and adjacent
land as Israel's "security
border").
Here a "compromise for-
mula" has already been
sounded by Likud elder

statesman Elimelech Ri-
malt. He proposed in a TV
interview that both parties
reserve their positions and
agree to hold a plebiscite
on the fate of the West
Bank when and if the issue
becomes actual.
This would apparently
mean the Likud's forgoing
its pledge to annex the area
— a pledge which many lib-
erals inside Likud would
anyway prefer to see quiet-
ly forgotten. Such an ac-
tion, they know, would slam
the door on any hopes of a
peaceful settlement.
If the electi6ns were held
again today it is fair to as-
sume that the results would
be substantially different.
Labor would still emerge
weakened, but would prob-
ably not come out losing a
massive 18. seats out of 50,
and the DMC, which took
most of these votes from
Labor, would very likely be
significantly reduced.
For what happened in the
elections Tuesday was, basi-
cally, that erstwhile Labor
supporters, anxious to pun-
ish Labor for what they felt
were its failures, particu-
larly in internal affairs,
swung over to the newly-
created and moderately
based DMC — and thereby
enabled Menahem Begin to
fulfill his lifelong ambition:
lead his rightist Likud
Party to (relative) victory
as the new Knesset's larg-
est faction.
For Likud only gained
two seats more than it regis-
tered in the December 1973
polls.
In the kibutzim, for in-
stance, traditionally the
strongest bastion of Labor
Alignment support, the
DMC made substantial in-
roads winning up to 10 or 12
percent of the vote, while
Likud remained at a negli-
gible 2 percent.
And in the "well estab-
lished" uptown suburbs of
the large cities the swing to
DMC was particularly ,
marked. In Haifa, another
Labor stronghold, DMC
polled over 20 percent ac-
cording to an analysis of
mid-count returns.
But analysts have already
noted another significant
factor: the election appears
to have been, for the first
time, a victory for "The

Second Israel" over "The
First Israel."
These quazi-sociological
terms denote the Israel of
the development towns and
big city slums — mainly of
Oriental origin — as op-
posed to the long-estab-
lished families, mainly of
European origin.
It is always the lower
classes in Israel, the "Sec-
ond Israel" who account for
the backbone of Likud's sup-
port, while the better estab-
lished sectors generally
favor the establishment —
represented by Labor.
But Labor Party man-
agers, and especially the
late Pinhas Sapir, have
always been aware of this

(Continued on Page 18)

RAKAH: Meir Wilner, Tewfik
Toubi, Charlie Biton, Tewfiq Zayyad,
Hanna Weiss and Avraham Leven-
braun.
AGUDA: Yehuda Meir Abramowitz,
Menahem Porush, Shlomo Lorincz and
Shlomo Yaacov Gross.
F'OALEI AGUDA: Rabbi Kalman
Kahane and Avraham Werdiger.
SHELLI: Lyova Ehav and Meir
Pail.
UNITED ARAB LIST (Labor-affil-
iated): Self E-Din Zuabi.
SHLOMZION: Arid Sharon and Yitz-
hak Yitzhaki.
FLATTO-SHARON: Flatto-Sharon.
INDEPENDENT LIBERALS: Gi-
deon Hausner.
CRM: Shulamit Aioni.

Among those who did'nt
make it were Meir Kahane
of JDL, Mordechai Ben-
Porat who broke away

from Labor, Shalom Cohen
(the former Panther lead-
er) and Ashdod leader Ye-
hoshua Peretz and two
Arab lists: "Coexistence
With Justice" and "Arab
Reform Movement."
Laborite Knesseters and
aspirants who were not
elected included Yosef Te-
koah (Former UN evnoy),
Esther Herlizt (former
envoy to Denmark), Yehiel
Leket (former chief aliya
sheliakh in the U.S.), and
Dov Zakin of Mapam Llea-
der.

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