Mapai political party, Israel

List of General Secretaries

• 1930–1954 – David Ben-Gurion
• 1954–1955 – Moshe Sharett
• 1955–1963 – David Ben-Gurion
• 1963–1968 – Levi Eshkol

Electoral results

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
1931	21,497 (#1)	43.5	27 / 71	New	David Ben-Gurion
1944	73,367 (#1)	36.5	64 / 171	37	David Ben-Gurion
1949	155,274 (#1)	35.7	46 / 120	18	David Ben-Gurion
1951	256,456 (#1)	37.3	45 / 120	1	David Ben-Gurion
1955	274,735 (#1)	32.2	40 / 120	5	David Ben-Gurion
1959	370,585 (#1)	38.2	47 / 120	7	David Ben-Gurion
1961	349,330 (#1)	34.7	42 / 120	5	David Ben-Gurion
1965	Part of the Labor Alignment		37 / 120	5	Levi Eshkol

References

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External links

• Worker's Party of Eretz Yisrael (Mapai) Knesset website
• Parliamentary:LIKUD, YESH ATID,UNITED ARAB LIST,LABOR,MERETZ,

YAMINA and etc.

Extraparliamentary:ALE YAROK,ARAB DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ZEHUT, YAC HAD, THE GREENS and etc.

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Additional information

• Mapai
• Founded in 1930
• Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael—The Workers Party of the Land of Israel) was established in 1930 as a result of the union of two parties: Ahdut HaAvoda party and HaPoel HaTzair. Throughout its existence, Mapai was the largest, strongest and most dominant party on the political map. During the British Mandate, it controlled the national institutions, the Zionist Congresses, and the Histadrut labor federation. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Mapai assumed a central position in the Knesset, in the government, in most of the local authorities, and in many other institutions, authorities, and organizations. Four Prime Ministers—David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Levi Eshkol, and Golda Meir—were from Mapai. As a typical mass party, Mapai was very involved in the lives of citizens, inter alia providing social services such as a health fund, sports club, and youth movement.
• Mapai's support bases included the Histadrut, the cooperative settlement movement (moshavim), and the collective settlement movement (kibbutzim), although in the decades following the establishment of the State, the agricultural forces lost some of their clout to urban forces. Although Mapai's socialism was always pragmatic, the younger generation in Mapai demanded even greater pragmatism, as opposed to the veterans, whose socialist ideological positions were stronger. Mapai’s security policy was also pragmatic compared to that of its sister parties in Europe, due to Israel's unique security problems. This position made it easier for Mapai to form coalitions with  parties to its right. On matters of religion and state, the party supported maintaining the status quo (which Ben-Gurion had initiated), which meant integrating the religious and ultra-Orthodox sectors into Israeli society while opposing the possibility of having the state governed by Jewish law (Halacha).
• In 1965, Mapai and Labor Unity ran together under the Alignment (Ma'arach) list. In 1968, These two parties, along with Rafi, merged into the Israeli Labor Party.

MAPAI FOUNDERS

• David Ben-Gurion Yosef Sprinzak

David Ben-Gurion

• David Ben-Gurion ( 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel. Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, he rose to become the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British-ruled Mandatory Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which he led until 1963 with a short break in 1954–55. n 1954 he resigned as prime minister and minister of defense but remained a member of the Knesset. He returned as minister of defense in 1955 after the Lavon Affair and the resignation of Pinhas Lavon. Later that year he became prime minister again, following the 1955 elections. Under his leadership, Israel responded aggressively to Arab guerrilla attacks, and in 1956, invaded Egypt along with British and French forces after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal during what became known as the Suez Crisis.
• He stepped down from office in 1963, and retired from political life in 1970. He then moved to Sde Boker, a kibbutz in the Negev desert, where he lived until his death. Posthumously, Ben-Gurion was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

Yosef Sprinzak

• Yosef Sprinzak (Hebrew: December 1885 – 28 January 1959) was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959. osef Sprinzak was born in Moscow, Russia but following the expulsion of Jews in 1891 moved with his family to Kishinev where he was a founder of the Tze'irei Zion (Zion Youth). He began medical school at the American University in Beirut in 1908 and settled in Palestine in 1910, during the Second Aliyah (1904–1914). Sprinzak was elected to the position of speaker of the provisional parliament on 15 July 1948,[3] a role in which he helped lay the foundations of Israel's parliamentarism.[4] He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 as a member of Mapai, and became the Speaker of the new body. He was re-elected and remained speaker in both the second and third Knessets.
• As part of his role as speaker, Sprinzak became acting President of Israel when Chaim Weizmann fell ill from 12 December 1951. After Weizmann's death on 9 November 1952 Sprinzak served as interim President until inauguration of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi on 10 December 1952.

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