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	Rafi (party) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Rafi party (רשימת פועלי ישראל "Worker's List") was formed in 1965 by former Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion, after he and a number of other Mapai members split with his successor, Levi Eshkol over the Lavon affair.
		Among the leaders of the new party were Shimon Peres and Moshe Dayan who had been implicated (they claimed unfairly) in the Lavon affair and were upset by Mapai's failure to support them.
		The new party hoped to displace Mapai as Israel's leading party, however, the party only won ten seats in the 1965 elections to the Knesset on a platform calling for electoral reform.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Rafi_%28party%29 (220 words)

	Labour (Israel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a social democratic and Zionist party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists.
		On 8 November 2005 Shimon Peres was replaced as the leader of the Labour party by the election of left-wing Histadrut union leader Amir Peretz in an internal Labor party ballot.
		Mapai evolved from the Socialist "Workers of Zion" party and adhered to the Zionist Socialist ideology promulgated by Nahum Syrkin and Ber Borochov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_Labour_Party (1530 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rafi (party)
		The Rafi party (רשימת פועלי ישראל "Worker's List") was formed in 1965 by former Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion, after he and a number of other Mapai members split with his successor, Levi Eshkol.
		And while Rafi was able to shrug off the rock, it proved to be an aggravation to the shoulder which prevented the normally powerful caver to attend to dragging his bulky camera bag along on the survey.
		One of the founders of the historical "Leachdut Haavoda" party (1919) and the Histadrut (1920).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rafi-%28party%29 (803 words)

	AllRefer.com - Levi Eshkol (Israeli History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A leader in the Histradrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor) and the Mapai party, he served as Israel's minister of finance from 1952 to 1963, when he became prime minister.
		In 1965 he was challenged from within the Mapai party by David Ben-Gurion in a dispute over government policy.
		The party supported Eshkol, at which time Ben-Gurion and his followers, including Moshe Dayan, split from Mapai to form the Rafi party.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/Eshkol-L.html (273 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bob Rae
		The Ontario New Democratic Party (formerly known as the Ontario Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.
		A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government.
		Robert Keith Rae (born August 2, 1948) was the twenty-first Premier of Ontario, and the first to represent the New Democratic Party in that role.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bob-Rae (983 words)

	A Political Leader
		This rare type of leadership in party politics, which was conditioned by both personality and historical circumstance, bore the following characteristics: It originated, during the early era, in the institutions of the Labor Movement (Histadrut, Kibbutz), not only in the political party.
		In an open letter to the leaders of this group, Eshkol declared that the party decision to dismiss Lavon had lost meaning and that the door was now open to resume their regular participation in the party and its bodies.
		Rafi's unconditional pro-merger attitude (expressed in these terms by its Secretary-General, Peres, immediately after the war) as well as pressure from within Mapai itself, produced tripartite negotiations which led to the formation of the Israeli Labor Party.
	research.haifa.ac.il /~eshkol/yanai1.html (2422 words)

	Glossary of Israeli Parties and Personalities - 1948-1981
		In 1964, in the wake of the Lavon Affair, split from his party to form Rafi, which gained ten seats in the elections of 1965.
		In 1946 Hashomer Hatzair formally became a political party in Palestine, and in 1948 it participated in the formation of Mapam.
		Founded upon the merger of Achdut Ha'Avoda and Hapoel Hatzair in 1930, it constituted the the central and dominant political force in the Labor movement, in the Yishuv of Palestine, in the Zionist movement and later in the State of Israel.
	www.jcpa.org /art/knesset8.htm (16693 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Israel / Appendix B
		Nevertheless, Mapai became the dominant party in the Yishuv and later in Israel; after 1968 it was the dominant faction in the Labor Party.
		From the founding of the state in 1948 to 1977, the NRP (or its predecessors) was the ally of the Labor Party (or its predecessors) in forming Labor-led coalition governments; in return the NRP was awarded control of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
		The joint Arab-Jewish party was established in 1984 and advocated the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
	rs6.loc.gov /frd/cs/israel/il_appnb.html (1743 words)

	Rumpus in NA over Dhaka fall issue -DAWN - Top Stories; 07 April, 2004
		He said his party was proud to have got 90,000 Pakistani troops released from the Indian detention camps and that Hamoodur Rahman Commission report needed to be reopened in order to put the record straight.
		Earlier, treasury MNA Mehnaz Rafi rising on a point of order had debunked the remarks of Mr Ashraf and defended the role of army in the East Pakistan crisis and snubbed the PPP speaker who had criticized the army's role in the debacle.
		The opposition ARD and other allied parties sans MMA became furious when the speaker decided not to allow PPP leaders to rebut the statement of Ms Rafi who had accused the particular political party for its negative role which she said led to the break-up of Pakistan.
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/07/top3.htm (740 words)

	Rafi's Blog
		Because this was Rafi's party (and thankfully, he didn't seem to want to cry) we did him the huge favor of getting him a large balloon to bat around.
		Rafi had eaten a big lunch and didn't have much of an appetite for cake, but this didn't stop him from smushing a bit on his nose so Mommy coulod get the photo she wanted to put in his rehearsal dinner video.
		Rafi was good on the plane although he clearly can't stand being in the car seat that long.
	nagorsky.typepad.com (2555 words)

	ACLU, U. Michigan Student Assembly print house party guide - February 4, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ANN ARBOR, Mich.-When hosting their next party, the University of Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is hoping students don't forget to play by the book.
		Co-creator Abe Rafi said the idea for the handbook was developed by a student ACLU group at the University of Kansas.
		Rafi said he thought the idea would benefit students at the university.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/93/91/10_1_m.html (658 words)

	OnlySimchas.com ® :: Simchas & Galleries :: View Simcha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rafi- I'm so happy you've found Talya, because 1) she's amazing and 2) I was scared Talya could've married some 29-year old guy that I would have had to pretend to like when we hung out.
		Rafi, I know you already know what an amazing girl you got and you two are so perfect for eachother and we wish you only good things.
		Rafi- I wanna use the first line of this post to ask for mechila for being judgmental...I love Syms!!!!Now the rest- Tal- it's been a long time- Ramaz, Brov, Barnard- we've done it all...
	www.onlysimchas.com /galleries/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewsimcha&SimchaId=43397&SimchaType=6 (1006 words)

	The Labor Party
		The Labor Party (Mifleget ha-Avodah ha-Yisraelit/Maarach) was established in 1968 with the joining of Mapai, Ahdut Ha’avodah and Labor Rafi.
		In any agreement, either full or partial, there will be guarantees for the security and safety of the residents of the security zone in southern Lebanon and the forces of the South Lebanese Army.
		The Labor Party is opposed to the passage of legislation in the Knesset which would deny the rights of non-Orthodox religious groups in Israel.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Politics/labor.html (3035 words)

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		Rafi Smith, founder and CEO of Smith Research and Consulting, opened the call reviewing his latest polls gauging Israel’s electorate.
		Results indicated Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new party, Kadima, would win 34 seats; Labor under Amir Peretz, 24 seats; Likud, with a chairman to be elected next week, 12 seats; and Shas, led by Eli Yishai, 10 seats.
		Rafi Smith offered a bleak prediction for Shiniu in the coming election during the question and answer portion of the call.
	www.e-guana.net /organizations/org/12-15-05IsraelElectionsCallNotes.doc (1077 words)

	Peres, Shimon
		The Rafi Party was unsuccessful, and in 1967 Peres initiated merger negotiations between the Mapai (Ben-Gurion's former party) and the Ahdut Avodah, a more leftist workers' party, that led to the establishment of the
		In 1977 Peres became head of the Labour Party and, as such, was twice defeated by Menachem Begin as a candidate for prime minister (1977, 1981) before winning access to the post after the indecisive elections of 1984.
		In September 1984 Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud party, formed a power-sharing agreement, with Peres as prime minister for the first half of a 50-month term and Shamir as deputy prime minister and foreign minister; the roles were reversed for the second 25-month period.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/459_66.html (558 words)

	Zionism and Israel - Biographies - Shimon Peres
		Party "young guard." He was first elected to the Knesset (parliament) in 1959.
		During this period, Peres was part of the right-wing of the Labor or Alignment party as it was variously known, and actively encouraged settlement of the occupied West Bank.
		He was unable to lead Labor party to victory however, and in 1977 the party lost power for the first time since the State of Israel was founded in 1948.
	www.zionism-israel.com /bio/Peres_biography.htm (1517 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- A David Come to Judgment -- Nov. 12, 1965 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Mapai Party won 43 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, one more than it had held before the election.
		Ben-Gurion's Rafi Party, a splinter of the Mapai, formed to challenge Eshkol earlier this year, made a poor showing.
		Rafi won ten seats, though Ben-Gurion had hoped for 15 or 20.
	time-proxy.yaga.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,834558,00.html (349 words)

	MSN Encarta - David Ben-Gurion
		Born David Gruen in Płońsk, Russia (now in Poland), Ben-Gurion became committed to Zionism, the movement to settle and unite Jews in Palestine, under the influence of his father and grandfather.
		Ben-Gurion was also instrumental in founding the Aḥdut Ha’avodah party in 1919, which became Mapai (Israel Workers Party) in 1930.
		In December 1953 Ben-Gurion voluntarily retired to Sede Boqer, a kibbutz (cooperative community) in the Negev region of southern Israel, to take a break from the rigors of his long political career and to demonstrate the importance of desert habitation and cultivation.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577015/David_Ben-Gurion.html (1144 words)

	Ariel Sharon, Escapist - article by Daniel Pipes
		The leadership of these escapist parties is usually a strikingly mixed bag of individuals with little ideological coherence.
		The Susser-Goldberg model does not perfectly fit the Sharon party, for the new-start parties they describe were founded by political outsiders from the worlds of business, the press, or the academy who, fed up with the status quo, jumped into the political arena — hardly the same as a sitting prime minister.
		As was the case with other new-start parties, it urgently and arrogantly tries to transcend the deep left-right divide of Israeli politics and offer something both fresh and synthetic.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/3152 (778 words)

	MarkDankof.com -- the Constitution Party Candidate for U.S. Senate from the State of Delaware, 2000
		Subsequently, Rafi Eitan would turn to British media mogul and Mossad asset, Robert Maxwell, in the further distribution of the PROMIS derivative software to a diverse coalition of intelligence agencies worldwide, including over $500 million in covert sales to Canada, Great Britain, Australia, South Korea, the Soviet KGB, a Polish intelligence agency, and Communist China.
		Rafi Eitan was about to begin on what he hoped would be his greatest triumph yet.
		Formerly the 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle, and later an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996, he entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and incumbent William Roth.
	www.markdankof.com /seeds_of_fire.htm (2711 words)

	Israel - Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Labor became Israel's dominant party as a result of its predecessors' effective and modernizing leadership during the formative prestate period (1917-48).
		Although the two parties retained their organizational independence, they shared a common slate in elections to the Knesset, the Histadrut, and local government offices.
		Although the party survived the Knesset elections of December 31, 1973, with a slightly reduced plurality, the war led to the resignation of Prime Minister Meir's government on April 10, 1974.
	countrystudies.us /israel/92.htm (382 words)

	The Review - The Earthquake
		Historically, third parties in Israel tend to begin with a sizzle but end with a fizzle - but Sharon’s experiment is unique; never has a sitting Israeli premier left the ruling party to form a new party.
		Specifically, a group of rebels within his party is blocking Sharon from passing a budget and has stopped him from naming two loyalists to ministerial portfolios.
		A portion of this two-thirds belonged to the Likud Party and was represented by Sharon.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/2005/30-12/makovsky30-12.html (816 words)

	Jerusalem Archives - 1965 — Living on the Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Herut party forms Gahal in coalition with the Liberal Party.
		Ben-Gurion's Mapai party splits and the Rafi party is formed.
		Teddy Kollek (Rafi party) becomes mayor with a majority of council votes from Rafi, Gahal, Mafdal and Agudat Israel.
	www.jerusalem-archives.org /period5/5-39.html (138 words)

	The Head Heeb: Stage two
		His position as party leader is secure, so he can give the impression of jumping rather than being pushed, and an election next March will give his party time enough to organize but not time enough to dissipate.
		Rafi was formed primarily for personal rather than ideological reasons, and didn't have any policies or programs that couldn't be co-opted by some other party.
		The Sharon Party will probably have more of a chance to become permanent than similar third parties in the past, because it will be part of the coalition rather than a small and ineffectual opposition party.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/030722.html (5775 words)

	Advisers urging Sharon to abandon Likud - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sharon was easily the most popular figure in the party until he alienated his hard-line supporters with his plan to withdraw from Gaza and four West Bank settlements.
		Sharon splitting from Likud and forming a new center-left party is referred to as the "little bang" scenario to distinguish it from the "big bang" scenario proposed last year by a senior Labor Party member, Haim Ramon.
		Sharon has so far insisted that he has no intention of leaving the Likud, a party which he himself cobbled together from smaller parties in 1973 to serve as a platform for Menahem Begin, who was elected prime minister four years later.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20050828-103415-8868r.htm (476 words)

	AJC Mideast Briefing - November 21, 2005 - AJC
		The new party would include most of the key supporters, within Likud, of Sharon's Disengagement strategy-Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Minister of Justice Tzippi Livni are the most prominent among his new team-along with some ten other Members of Knesset who are leaving Likud.
		Students of American history may be reminded of Teddy Roosevelt and his Progressive Party, yet this, like the fate of Ben- Gurion's RAFI Party, does not hold out much of a promise in terms of the long-term prospects for the new three-party structure.
		It was quickly tagged as a "niche" party, focused on the Golan, and after a brief appearance in the 1996-99 Knesset (with four seats), it vanished.
	www.ajc.org /site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.1204711/k.97C2/AJC_Mideast_Briefing__November_21_2005.htm (1169 words)

	Rafi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rafi (Israel Labor List) was established by David Ben-Gurion for the 1965 elections as a protest against Mapai’s action in the Lavon Affair.
		Rafi gained ten seats in the next elections.
		Shimon Peres served as its secretary general and was instrumental in bringing Rafi and Mapai together to form the Labor Party in 1968.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Politics/rafi.html (54 words)

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