For the town in Mozambique, see Mapai, Mozambique.
Workers' Party of the Land of Israel
מפלגת פועלי ארץ ישראל
Leader
David Ben-Gurion (1930–54) Moshe Sharett (1954–55) David Ben-Gurion (1955–63) Levi Eshkol (1963–68)
Founders
David Ben-Gurion Yosef Sprinzak
Founded
5 January 1930 (1930-01-05)
Dissolved
23 January 1968 (1968-01-23)
Merger of
Ahdut HaAvoda Hapoel Hatzair
Merged into
Israeli Labor Party
Headquarters
Tel Aviv, Israel
Newspaper
Davar
Ideology
Labor Zionism Social democracy[1] Democratic socialism[2][3]
Political position
Centre-left[4] to left-wing[5]
National affiliation
Alignment (1965−1968)
International affiliation
Socialist International
Regional affiliation
Asian Socialist Conference
Colours
Red
Most MKs
47 (1959)
Election symbol
Politics of Israel
Political parties
Elections
Mapai (Hebrew: מַפָּא"י, an acronym for מִפְלֶגֶת פּוֹעֲלֵי אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael, lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a Labor Zionist and democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the modern-day Israeli Labor Party in January 1968. During Mapai's time in office, a wide range of progressive reforms were carried out,[6][7] as characterised by the establishment of a welfare state, providing minimum income, security, and free (or almost free) access to housing subsidies and health and social services.[8]
^Shafir, Gershon; Peled, Yoav, eds. (2000). The New Israel: Peacemaking And Liberalization. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 9780429964718. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^Jones, Clive A. (2013). Soviet Jewish Aliyah, 1989–1992: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East. Routledge. p. 61. [...] Mapai, the democratic socialist party of David Ben Gurion.
^Busky, Donald F. (2000). Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 210. ISBN 9780275968861. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^Sharon Weinblum (2015). Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel: A Critical Approach to Political Discourse. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-317-58450-6.
^"Reshaping the Political Order in Israel, 1965–1967". JSTOR. 3 November 2018. Israel's two main left-wing parties, Mapai and Ahdut HaAvodah.
^"National Labour Law Profile: The State of Israel". www.ilo.org. 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^The, Anne-Mei (2008). In death's waiting room : living and dying with dementia in a multicultural society. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-485-0107-6. OCLC 302106079.
Mapai (Hebrew: מַפָּא"י, an acronym for מִפְלֶגֶת פּוֹעֲלֵי אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael, lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel")...
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...
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...
1965 elections, Mapai allied with Ahdut HaAvoda to form the Labor Alignment, later renamed Alignment. This first Alignment ended when Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda...
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...
in the 4th Knesset. During the Knesset term, eight MKs broke away from Mapai to establish Rafi and two MKs left Maki to establish Rakah. Herut and the...
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...
members of the fourth Knesset. Mapai remained the dominant party, gaining seven seats. Following the elections, Mapai leader David Ben-Gurion formed ninth...
Mapam, establishing the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda before joining Mapai. Four other members left Mapam to found Ahdut HaAvoda – Poale Zion, but...
primary opposing Zionist political parties in Palestine were the mainstream Mapai, the left-wing Socialist party, and the opposing Revisionists, the right-wing...
below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 2nd Knesset. Mapai retained its plurality in the Knesset, although its share of the vote dropped...
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...
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...
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...
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...
of Representatives of Mandatory Palestine were held on 5 January 1931. Mapai emerged as the largest party, winning 27 of the 71 seats. The Jewish National...
Arab–Israeli War. Between 1942 and 1944, Eshkol served as Secretary General of Mapai. During the Second World War Eshkol advocated for Jewish enrollment to the...
assembled. Murphy discovered that the main ZANLA base had been moved to Mapai, a village with an airstrip on the Nuanetsi River to the south-west, and...
1949, a month and a half after the elections for the First Knesset. His Mapai party formed a coalition with the United Religious Front, the Progressive...
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...
to create the Mapai party, bringing an end to Hapoel Hatzair. One of the Hapoel Hatzair leaders who joined the senior levels of Mapai was Haim Arlosoroff...
turnout was 85.9%. Prior to the elections, two major alliances were formed; Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda united to form the Alignment, whilst Herut and the Liberal...
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...
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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