Jewish Labour Party

Israeli Socialist party founded in 1930; merged with two other parties in 1968 to form the Labor Party.

(Hebrew) -The Israel Labor Party ( Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael). The party of David Ben Gurion, first prime minister of the State of Israel, that held a majority and governed Israel until 1977, and again held power under Yitzhak Rabin and briefly under Ehud Barak. Mapai had a center-socialist ideology and was at timed allied in the "Ma'arach (alignment) with both Mapam (Mifleget Hapoalim haMeuchedet - United Workers Party) and Achdut Ha'avoda (Unity of Labor).