Mapai-led coalition governments

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Mapai-led coalition governments were Israeli administrations dominated by the Mapai labor party, which formed alliances with smaller parties to maintain political control during the early decades of the state.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Israeli government
political coalition
coalitionPartnersIncluded Agriculture and Development list
Arab Democratic List of Nazareth
Hapoel HaMizrachi
Mapam
Mizrachi movement
surface form: Mizrachi

Progress and Work list
Progressive Party
Agudat Yisrael
surface form: Religious Torah Front
coalitionStrategy alliances with smaller parties to secure Knesset majority
country Israel
dominantParty Mapai
endPeriod 1968
firstPrimeMinisterFromDominantParty David Ben-Gurion
formedAlliancesWith Arab satellite parties
religious parties
small centrist parties
governmentType parliamentary democracy
historicalContext early decades of the State of Israel
ideology labor Zionism
implementedPolicy development of Histadrut-linked economy
establishment of national institutions
large-scale public housing projects
keyLeader David Ben-Gurion
Levi Eshkol
Moshe Sharett
mainOpposition General Zionists
Herut
mergedInto Alignment
notableEventDuringTenure Arab–Israeli War of 1948
surface form: 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Six-Day War
Suez Crisis
parliamentarySystem Knesset
policyFocus immigration absorption
security and defense
socialist-oriented economic development
state-building
politicalPosition center-left
precededBy British Mandate for Palestine
surface form: British Mandate administration in Palestine
reasonForCoalitions need for majority in fragmented multiparty system
relatedPartyTransformation formation of the Israeli Labor Party in 1968
secondPrimeMinisterFromDominantParty Moshe Sharett
startPeriod 1948
succeededBy Alignment-led governments
Labor Party-led governments
thirdPrimeMinisterFromDominantParty Levi Eshkol
timeInPowerCharacterization era of Mapai dominance in Israeli politics

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Mapai coalitionType Mapai-led coalition governments