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  • Democratic Party The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Abraham Feinberg was perhaps the most important Jewish fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the presidential campaign of 1960, with the dollars he...
  • Labor Party The Labor Party is a major political party in Israel. It was formed through the merger of Mapai Party and Achdut Avodah in 1968, and later joined by Rafi. Pinhas Sapir was renowned as the economic boss of the newly formed Labor Party.[^1]
  • Likud Party The Likud Party is a major right-wing political party in Israel. Its surprising victory in the May 1977 national elections ended twenty-nine years of Mapai Party and Labor Party domination of the political process in Israel.
  • Mapai Party Mapai (Israel Workers') Party was the dominant political party in Israel for many years. Its political control under David Ben-Gurion was total, akin to that of a Mafia don.
  • Rafi Rafi (an acronym for the Israel Workers' List) was a new political party created by David Ben-Gurion in June 1965, after he dramatically resigned from the Mapai Party. He was joined by Shimon Peres, who became Rafi's power broker, and Moshe Dayan.