Mapai merges into the Israeli Labor Party

In January 1968 Mapai merged with Ahdut HaAvoda and Ben-Gurion's breakaway Rafi to form the Israeli Labor Party, ending Mapai's separate existence after nearly four decades as the central party of the Zionist left and the state's founding governing party.

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Mapai

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Mapai merges into the Israeli Labor Party [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6b46ab9d-ba19-4960-8401-ad55035bf520

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mapai merges into the Israeli Labor Party." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6b46ab9d-ba19-4960-8401-ad55035bf520.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-6b46ab9d-ba19-4960-8401-ad55035bf520,
  title     = {{Mapai merges into the Israeli Labor Party}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6b46ab9d-ba19-4960-8401-ad55035bf520},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1968-01-23. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1968-01-23. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.