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Break With Histadrut
Sought By Labor

Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Labor Party, whose conven-
tion opened with explosive
dissension, may lose some of
its brightest young members
before it closes.
Haim Ramon, chairman of
the party's Knesset faction,
touched off a rhetorical
storm when he offered a
series of motions aimed at
severing the party's in-
timate links to Histadrut,
the all-embracing trade union
federation which dates from
the pre-statehood era.
But Mr. Ramon's proposals
were all voted down by a
large majority of the nearly
3,000 delegates to the con-
vention, leading political
observers to predict signifi-
cant defections among the
reform-minded minority.
Mr. Ramon and Yossi
Beilin, another of Labor's
rising younger generation,
proposed that membership
in Kupat Holim, Israel's
major health care agency, no
longer should be contingent
upon membership in
Histadrut.
That would strike a mas-
sive blow at one of
Histadrut's main sources of
power. Mr. Ramon and Mr.
Beilin also urged that
Histadrut's economic em-
pire, Hevrat Ovdim, be sold
to its members.
Considering the negative
reaction to his ideas, Mr.

Ramon seems ripe for depar-
ture, a blow to Labor, which
has slumped badly in the
most recent opinion polls.
Mr. Ramon is considered
one of the party's most prom-
ising politicians, a match for
the Dan Meridors and Ehud
Olmerts who are ascending
in the ranks of Likud.
Labor faces an even more
fundamental split, as doves
and hawks battle over the
party platform.
The Platform Committee
has produced a draft ad-
vocating territorial com-
promise on the Golan
Heights and other positions
unpalatable to the hawks.
Informed sources told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that if the platform is
defeated, leading doves will
walk out of the party with
Mr. Ramon, among them
Ezer Weizman, Uzi Baram
and Mr. Amir Mr. Peretz.
They are likely to align with
the opposition peace bloc
consisting of the leftist
Citizens Rights Movement,
Mapam. and Center-Shinui.
The champion of the
hawks is Yitzhak Rabin,
rival to Shimon Peres for the
party's leadership. Mr.
Rabin was scheduled to ad-
dress the convention.
A hard-line speech by
Rabin could trigger a mass
flight of the doves.

European. Jews
Meet Egypt's Mubarak

Paris (JTA) — European
Jewish leaders met with
President Hosni Mubarak of
Egypt here last week.
The Egyptian president,
who was accompanied by his
foreign minister, Amre
Moussa, assured them of his
unwavering support for the
Arab-Israeli peace process
that started in Madrid on
Oct. 30 and vowed that he
would not spare any effort to
help it succeed.
The 30-minute meeting,
described as cordial, took
place between Mr. Mubarak
and a delegation of the Eu-
ropean Jewish Congress, an
affiliate of the World Jewish
Congress, headed by Jean
Kahn.
Mr. Kahn is president of
the EJC and of the Repre-
sentative Council of French
Jewish Organizations. Also
present were Israel Fines-
tein, chairman of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews,

and Serge Cwajgenbaum,
secretary-general of the
EJC.
The Egyptian leader said
the most significant aspect
of the Madrid conference
was the fact that Israelis and
Palestinians began to talk to
each other.
He offered no opinion of
where the next round of
bilateral talks should be
held.
Mr. Mubarak was schedul-
ed to address the European
Parliament in Strasbourg.
He was invited by the presi-
dent of the European
Assembly, Enrique Baron
Crespo of Spain.
The 518-member Parlia-
ment, the legislative body of
the European Community,
has heard from other Middle
East leaders. Last month, it
heard from Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
and King Hussein of Jordan
spoke before it in September.

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