Progress and Work
Political party in Israel
Progress and Work
קדמה ועבודה
الزراعة والتطوير |
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Leader | Salah-Hassan Hanifes |
Ideology | Israeli Arab interest |
National affiliation | Mapai |
Most MKs | 2 (1955–1959) |
Fewest MKs | 1 (1951–1955) |
Election symbol | |
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Progress and Work ( Hebrew : קִדְמָה וְעֲבוֹדָה , Kidma VeAvoda , Arabic : الزراعة والتطوير ) was an Arab satellite list in Israel .
History
The Progress and Work party was an Israeli Arab organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections . Like most other Israeli Arab parties at the time, it was associated with David Ben-Gurion 's Mapai party, as Ben Gurion was keen to include Israeli Arabs in the functioning of the state in order to prove Jews and Arabs could co-exist peacefully and productively.
In the elections, the party won only one seat, taken by its leader, Salah-Hassan Hanifes . Because of its association with Mapai , the party joined the governing coalition in all four governments of the second Knesset.
In the 1955 elections , the party won two seats. Saleh Suleiman took the second seat, and the party was again part of the coalition.
In 1959, a falling-out between Hanifes and Mapai led to Hanifes setting up a new party, the Independent Faction for Israeli Arabs , to fight the 1959 elections . Both parties failed to cross the electoral threshold , with Progress and Work receiving 0.5% of the votes, and the Independent Faction 0.4%.
In the 1961 elections , the party won 0.4% of the vote. After its second failure to cross the threshold, the party disappeared.
External links
- Progress and Work Knesset website
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