Elections for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 2 November 1965. Voter turnout was 85.9%.
Elder Israeli citizen of Moroccan origin voting in Ashdod, 1965
Rafi (political party)
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Rafi was a center-left political party in Israel, founded by former prime minister David Ben-Gurion in 1965. In 1968 it was one of three parties that merged to form the Israeli Labor Party.
1965 Israeli legislative election
…towards the end of the previous Knesset session. However, both Mapai and the Liberal Party had been hit by breakaway factions, the Ben-Gurion led Rafi and the Independent Liberals (largely composed of former Progressive Party members) respectively. The communist Maki had also experienced a split earlier…
Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres at the founding conference of Rafi in 1966