ISRAEL GOES TO THE POLLS

Today Israeli citizens are called upon to vote in parliamentary elections. They need our prayers that the new government will be what is needed in this tense political situation.



Looking back:

1938: The Palestine Post reported from London that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby Gore, made a clear reaffirmation of the British desire to proceed with the partition, as recommended by the Peel Report and the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations. Gore repeated that partition was the best means to establish a Jewish National Home in Palestine. A British Army sergeant was killed by an Arab terrorist near Tulkarm. The final allocation of 31 seats at the Jerusalem Community Council was: Labor 10, Revisionists four, Hapoel Hamizrahi and Sephardim three each, and the rest were divided between nine smaller parties. The total number of votes cast was 9,368. (Quoted from "This Day in Jewish History")