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Ahdut Ha'avoda - Poalei Zion

Description:

A workers’ party established in 1946 following a split in Mapai. Most of its leaders were members of the United Kibbutz Movement. The party united with Mapam in 1948, and ran within the framework of the union for the First and Second Knessets . Ahdut Ha’avoda reemerged as an independent party in 1954 due to ideological differences with Mapam, and four MKs left the Mapam parliamentary group assuming the name Ahdut Ha'avoda-Po’alei Zion, even though the House Committee did not recognize them as a parliamentary group. The party ran independently for the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Knessets, and was a member of all the Governments formed in the course of these Knessets. Prior to elections for the Sixth Knesset, it joined the Alignment with Mapai, and in 1968, it was among the founders of the Israel Labor Party. In the political sphere Ahdut Ha'avoda was considered an "activist" party, and when the Likud was established in 1973, some of its members joined the new list. At that time, the first territorial compromise plan in the Labor Party- the "Allon Plan" - was formulated by Yigal Allon, who was a senior member in Ahdut Ha’avoda.

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	2 20/08/1951 15/08/1955	Knesset Members: Moshe Aram Israel Bar-Yehuda Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Aharon Zisling



	3 15/08/1955 30/11/1959	Knesset Members: Avraham Abaas Yigal Allon Moshe Aram Yerachmiel Assa Israel Bar-Yehuda Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Moshe Carmel Israel Galili Ruth Haktin Tzipora Laskov Nahum Nir Yitzhak Tabankin Zeev Tsur



	4 30/11/1959 04/09/1961	Knesset Members: Yigal Allon Israel Bar-Yehuda Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Mordechai Bibi Moshe Carmel Israel Galili Ruth Haktin Nahum Nir



	5 04/09/1961 22/11/1965	Knesset Members: Yigal Allon Moshe Aram Israel Bar-Yehuda Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Mordechai Bibi Moshe Carmel Israel Galili Ruth Haktin Halil-Salim Jabara Nahum Nir



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