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Mapam was a Labor Zionist and democratic socialist political party in the State of Israel. Established shortly before Israeli independence in January 1948 as a merger between the Hashomer Hatzair Work
1950s Mapam May Day meeting. Slogan reads '1 of May for Peace and Brotherhood of the Peoples.
Mapam members at the May Day parade in 1950
Mapam conference at Kibbutz Givat Brenner in November 1948
Mapam conference in 1949
Constituent Assembly elections were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the
Mapam
…an "imperative of strategy". This was probably directed at Mapam member Yigal Allon, who had been chief of operations during Operation Danny. In the 1949 Constituent Assembly elections, Mapam won 19 seats, becoming the second-largest party in the Knesset after Mapai. At the time Mapam did not permit non-Jews to become members and…
David Ben-Gurion campaigning for Mapai before the election of the Israeli Constituent Assembly, 20 January 1949
Mapai posters comparing Herut leader Menachem Begin to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Israeli election posters, 1949
Voting in Nazareth 1949