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 Voters A M ‘Ayin Tel Aviv 32,199 16,054 13,092 1,074 Haifa 20,793 11,050 (53%) 8,307 949 Jerusalem 7644 5085 (66.2%) 1817 282 Tiberias 737 566 (77%) 158 5 ‘Afula 736 453 (61.4%) 229 6 Nesher 701 410 (58.4%) 257 5 Netanya 1761 937 (53.3%) 552 Petah Tikva 4527 4228 (53.6) 1641 121 Rishon LeZion 2613 1223 (46.7%) 1117 129 Rehovot 3296 1458 (45%) 1401 49