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The party polled 7,616 votes, or 4% of the total, in the Palestine elections to the 22nd Zionist Congress. The labour group Ha'oved Hatzioni, however, entered a separate list and secured 4, 299 votes.

The organs of the party are the daily "Haboker" and the weekly "Ha'oved Hatzioni". The daily "Ha'aretz" represents the views of the moderate General Zionists and those of "Aliya Hadasha".

C. Right Wing Parties.
TNAUT HAAM (People's Movement).

This party was created during the campaigns for the new Elected Assembly and the General Federation of Jewish Labour in 194-l and was a result of the fusion of various factions and groups of individuals such as the "Rejuvenation Movement" which left. the Revisionists, the Jewish State Party, a circle of young Mapai members, a faction of "Ha'oved Hatzioni" and others. Although at first it showed signs of becoming a political factor in the Yishuv. the party has since lost much of its support and is now only a few hundreds strong. It propagates a vigorous policy aiming at unity within the Zionist Movement and in the Yishuv, the creation of a Jewish State in the whole of Palestine within the framework of the British Commonwealth, Jewish control of all natural and human resources in the country, preparation for the absorption of the Jewish masses. accelerated immigration and an agrarian reform which would relieve the Arab farmer from the bondage of feudalism. The partv has a labour faction known as "Poalei I-foam" which participates in the General Federation of Jewish Labour. It polled 699 votes at the elections to the Zionist Congress, insufficient to secure representation. The leading figure in the movement is Dr. B. Lubotsky.

MIZRAHI FEDERATION.

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This party is a branch of the World Mizrahi Organisation whose world centre is in Jerusalem. In common with Hapdel Hamizrahi , described above, this party aims at instilling a Jewish religious and traditionalist spirit in all Jewish activities in accordance with the Torah. Its slogan is "the land of Israel for the people of Israel, according to the law of Israel". Its members are pious Jews drawn mainly from the urban middle-classes and it embraces an orthodox religious youth organisation, a religious students' union and a women's organisation. At the Palestine elections to the 22nd Zionist Congress the party polled 4,299 votes, or less than 3% of the total. Its women's organisation participated separately in the elections and secured 93n votes. There are two

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