Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion

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Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion ( Hebrew אחדות העבודה - פועלי ציון, German unity of work - Workers of Zions ) was a left and Zionist party in Israel , which existed from 1954 to 1968. It emerged as a moderate (“right”) split from the socialist Mapam and eventually merged with Mapai and Rafi to form the Awoda Labor Party . The party leaders were Yitzchak Tabenkin , Yisrael Galili and Yigal Allon .

history

The Knesset MPs Moshe Aram , Jisra'el Bar Jehuda , Jitzchak Ben Aharon and Aharon Zisling left the left-wing socialist Mapam in 1954 and founded Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion . The name made reference to two older left-wing Zionist movements: The Poale Zion , founded in 1901, was the first worldwide socialist-Zionist organization. Its moderate wing in Palestine was called Achdut haAwoda from 1919 to 1930 , from which the great moderate-left Mapai emerged. A spin-off from Mapai had also called itself Achdut haAwoda in 1944 , and it had merged into Mapam in 1948.

The Knesset committee responsible for procedural questions initially did not recognize Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion as a separate parliamentary group. However, the party took part in the 1955 parliamentary election , in which it was the fifth strongest force with 8.2% of the vote and 10 of the 120 seats. David Ben-Gurion accepted the party as a coalition partner in his government and Jisra'el Bar Jehuda became Minister of the Interior. In the elections in 1959 and 1961 , Achdut haAwoda received 6-7 percent of the vote and seven and eight seats respectively. For the 1965 election , Achdut HaAwoda and Mapai formed an electoral alliance called HaMaʿarach LeAchdut Poalei Eretz Yisrael ("Association for the Unity of the Workers of the Land of Israel"), after which their MPs also sat in a joint faction, HaMaʿarach . In 1968 the parties involved merged - as well as Rafi as the third partner - and the Israeli Labor Party ( Avoda ) was created.

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