Editing Mapai (section)

==History==
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rect 167 83 445 250 [[Hapoel Hatzair]]
rect 450 88 717 265 [[The non-partisans (pre-state Zionist political movement)|Non Partisans]]
rect 721 86 995 243 [[Poale Zion|Poalei Zion]]
rect 152 316 373 502 [[Hapoel HaMizrachi|HaPoel HaMizrachi]]
rect 552 328 884 512 [[Ahdut HaAvoda]]
rect 891 301 1111 534 [[Poale Zion#Factions,_1920_split_and_aftermath|Poalei Zion Left]]
rect 283 519 668 928 [[Mapai]]
rect 5 665 169 1432 [[HaOved HaTzioni]]
rect 697 747 918 953 [[Ahdut HaAvoda#Ahdut_HaAvoda_Movement|Ahdut HaAvoda Movement]]
rect 755 977 959 1234 [[Ahdut HaAvoda#Ahdut_HaAvoda_Poale_Zion_Movement|Ahdut HaAvoda Poalei ZIon]]
rect 775 1265 1136 1444 [[Mapam]]
rect 966 1023 1232 1217 [[Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party|HaShomer Hatzair Workers' Party]]
rect 1044 572 1228 766 [[Hashomer Hatzair|HaShomer HaTzair]]
rect 942 769 1177 919 [[Socialist League of Palestine]]
rect 387 1275 734 1447 [[Mapai]]
rect 365 1260 174 1447 [[Hapoel HaMizrachi|HaPoel HaMizrachi]]
rect 36 6 1225 81 [[Labor Zionism]]

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The party was founded on 5 January 1930 by the merger of the [[Hapoel Hatzair]] founded by [[A. D. Gordon]] and the original [[Ahdut HaAvoda]] (founded in 1919 from the right, more moderate, wing of the [[Zionism|Zionist]] [[Socialism|socialist]] [[Poale Zion]] led by [[David Ben-Gurion]]). In the early 1920s, the [[Labor Zionism|Labor Zionist]] movement had founded the [[Histadrut]] Union, which dominated the Hebrew settlement economy and infrastructure, later making Mapai the dominant political faction in Zionist politics. It was also responsible for the founding of [[Hashomer]] and [[Haganah]], the first two armed Jewish groups which secured the people and property of the new and emerging Jewish communities. By the early 1930s, Ben-Gurion had taken over the party, and had become de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine (known as the [[Yishuv]]). It was a member of the [[Labour and Socialist International]] between 1930 and 1940.<ref name="kow">{{Citation|last=Zielińska|first=Janina|title=Kowalski [Kowalski-Wierusz], Alfred(-Wierusz)|date=2003|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t047801|work=Oxford Art Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t047801 |access-date=2021-02-26|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The party was Jewish-only until the late 1960s, with a succession of [[Arab satellite lists|satellite parties for Israeli Arabs]], including the [[Democratic List of Nazareth]], the [[Democratic List for Israeli Arabs]], [[Agriculture and Development]], [[Progress and Work]], [[Cooperation and Brotherhood]], [[Progress and Development]] and [[Cooperation and Development]]. It supported the policy of subjecting Arab citizens to martial law, which included confining them to the towns of their residence, and allowing them to exit only with a permit granted by the Israeli authorities.<ref>{{cite book|last=Segev|first=Tom|title=1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East|year=2007|language=en|publisher=MacMillan|location=New York|page=68|isbn=9781429911672|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlqcITwEktEC&q=%22martial+law%22+arabs+israel&pg=PA67}}</ref>