• Mapai (Hebrew: מַפָּא"י, an acronym for מִפְלֶגֶת פּוֹעֲלֵי אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎, Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael, lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel")...
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    Mapai is a small town in southern Mozambique. It is a semi-arid region, with a dry climate and vegetation dominated by mopane (Colophospermum mopane)...
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  • political party in Israel. The party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi. Until 1977, all Israeli prime ministers were affiliated...
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    for a second time in 1963, breaking away from Mapai to form Rafi. Levi Eshkol took over as head of Mapai and prime minister. He became the first prime...
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    1965 elections, Mapai allied with Ahdut HaAvoda to form the Labor Alignment, later renamed Alignment. This first Alignment ended when Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda...
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    voters. The hostility between Begin and Israel's first Prime Minister, the Mapai leader David Ben-Gurion, which had begun over the Altalena Affair, was evident...
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    Levi Eshkol (category Mapai leaders)
    the 1965 Mapai leadership election and split from Mapai with a few of his young protégés to form Rafi in June 1965. In the meantime, Mapai merged with...
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    the party allied with Mapai to form the Labor Alignment, which won 45 seats. On 23 January 1968, the party merged with Mapai and Rafi to form the Israeli...
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    David Ben-Gurion (category Mapai politicians)
    failing to unseat Eshkol as Mapai party leader in the 1965 Mapai leadership election, Ben-Gurion subsequently broke with Mapai in June 1965 and formed a...
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      Maki   Mapam   Ahdut HaAvoda   Mapai   Mapai's satelliites   Progressive   Liberal   General Zionists   Others   Sephardim and Oriental Communities...
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  • Colour key Mapai General Zionists...
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    Mizrahim and Edot HaMizrach, claiming it is a fictitious identity advanced by Mapai to preserve a "rival" to the Ashkenazim and help them push the Mizrahim...
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    question." Indeed the Mapai prioritized nationalism over socialism to the extent that the "only qualification required for membership in Mapai was not ideological...
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    primary opposing Zionist political parties in Palestine were the mainstream Mapai, the left-wing Socialist party, and the opposing Revisionists, the right-wing...
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  • 27 seats, just seven less than Mapai, the party that had dominated Israeli politics since independence, although Mapai also had been reduced in size due...
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    making it the second-largest party after the mainstream Labor Zionist Mapai. The party did not allow non-Jews to be members at the time, but it also...
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  • into the Israeli Labor Party. The first Alignment was a 1965 alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda. The two parties continued to exist independently, but...
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  • A leadership election was held on 3 June 1965 to elect the leader of Mapai. It saw the party's Central Committee vote to reelect incumbent party leader...
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    Moshe Sharett (category Mapai leaders)
    Brigade, which fought with the British Army during World War II. A member of Mapai, Sharett's term was both preceded and succeeded by the premiership of David...
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    below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 2nd Knesset. Mapai retained its plurality in the Knesset, although its share of the vote dropped...
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    was formed on 8 March 1949 with David Ben-Gurion as Prime Minister. His Mapai party formed a coalition with the United Religious Front, the Progressive...
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  • Revisionists tried for the murder of Haim Arlosoroff, a prominent leader of the Mapai party. Stavsky was the only one who was convicted, based on the testimony...
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    associated with the Histadrut Die Woch (1959–?, Yiddish), associated with Mapai HaBoker (1934–1965, Hebrew), associated with the General Zionists HaMashkif...
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    Shimon Peres (category Mapai politicians)
    one of two Mapai party supporters, out of the 12 members. Three years later, he took over the movement and won a majority. The head of Mapai, David Ben-Gurion...
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    Mapam, establishing the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda before joining Mapai. Four other members left Mapam to found Ahdut HaAvoda – Poale Zion, but...
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    end Notes 1 David Ben-Gurion Mapai P, 1, 2, 3, 4 14 May 1948 26 January 1954 Serving Prime Minister 2 Pinhas Lavon Mapai 5 26 January 1954 21 February...
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    refused to accept the compromise, and viewed it as a divisive play within the Mapai party.[citation needed] Another investigative committee took up the matter...
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  • ten members present supporting it: For: David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett (Mapai); Peretz Bernstein (General Zionists); Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi);...
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  • Monotype matrix for aleph was mistakenly constructed the wrong way up. The Mapai political party in Israel used an aleph as its election symbol, and featured...
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    and was at first on the political fringe, embodying the opposition to the Mapai-led government and Israeli establishment. He remained in opposition in the...
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