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General Zionists and the WIZO party, 1948-51 / Kovalsky, Ofira Gruweis

Kovalsky, Ofira Gruweis	Journal Article
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In the first elections for the Israeli parliament (January 1949) WIZO ran as a women's party seeking equal rights for women. It won enough votes for a parliamentary seat – highly unusual in that day and age. WIZO was unique in that it started out as an apolitical women's organisation aligned with the mid-stream Zionist consensus and redefined itself as a party fighting for gender equality.This article examines the developments in the General Zionist Party that led WIZO, founded as a women's philanthropic organisation, to run as an independent political party on its own platform on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. It will also look at the impact of WIZO party on Israel's center-right - the General Zionists, the Progressive party and Herut - in the context of the Constituent Assembly elections. The establishment of a women's party in 1948-49 was a unique phenomenon with no equal anywhere in the world at the time.

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Israel ; Parties ; Herut Movement ; Wizo ; Rightwing ; General Zionist Party ;
Progressive Party ; Revisionist Party

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Ghost of the Altalena seventy-five years on / Kovalsky, Ofira Gruweis

Kovalsky, Ofira Gruweis	Journal Article
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The tragic Altalena incident of June 1948, where prime minister and minister of defence David Ben-Gurion ordered the newly-formed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to sink a ship laden with arms for one of Israel’s pre-state military underground groups, killing sixteen people and wounding many others, remains one of the most traumatic events in Israel’s history. This article re-examines the conduct of the key personalities involved in the incident and their attitude towards it in subsequent years.

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Israel ; David Ben-Gurion ; Altalena ; Menachem Begin ; Hagana ; Etzel ;
Israel Galili ; Hillel Kook ; Amihai Paglin ; Yaacov Meridor

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