יומנים > יומן - מלא 15/02/1949

Tuesday, February 15, 1949

By way of Ben-Aharon, I invited Mapam representatives for a conversation. They decided on: Ya’ari, Idelson, Arad, Hazan, Ben-Aharon. Ben Arahon wrote me a note: “As to Yisrael G. – I understand that until the two of you have a conversation to ‘clear the air’ he won’t be participating in delegations on business matters.”

         – Our direction for the near term (10-15 years)[:] implementing kibbutz galuyot [ingathering of the exiles], a socialist governing system. During the First Knesset only a portion of the work necessary for this will be carried out, but that portion will also be a reflection of this direction. During the first three or four years of the First Knesset, these will be the urgent issues: war and peace, housing, economic planning in terms of security, immigrant absorption and raising the workers’ standard of living, the dissolution of ethnic-communal divides (eliminating ignorance, crowding, lack of sanitary conditions), organizing the army for peacetime, vocational education, adapting the economy (agriculture, industry, construction, air and sea, transport) to advanced science and technology, general education, pacing the war against the cost of living, Israeli currency, employment legislation, new land legislation, irrigation project.

Comparison with the 1944 Histadrut elections