Progress and Work ( he, קִדְמָה וְעֲבוֹדָה, ''Kidma VeAvoda'', ar, الزراعة والتطوير) was an

Arab satellite list The Arab satellite lists, Arab lists, or satellite parties were Israeli Arab satellite parties formed for the purposes of electoral support of Mapai (and later the Labor Party), and other Zionist parties between 1948 and the mid 1970s.Rebecca K ...

in Israel.

History

The Progress and Work party was an Israeli Arab organisation formed to fight the 1951 elections. Like most other Israeli Arab parties at the time, it was associated with David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, as Ben Gurion was keen to include Israeli Arabs in the functioning of the state in order to prove Jews and Arabs could co-exist peacefully and productively. In the elections, the party won only one seat, taken by its leader, Salah-Hassan Hanifes. Because of its association with Mapai, the party joined the governing coalition in all four governments of the second Knesset. In the 1955 elections, the party won two seats.

Saleh Suleiman Saleh Suleiman ( ar, صالح سليمان, he, צאלח סלימאן; 1888 – 24 November 1980) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Progress and Work between 1955 and 1959. Biography Suleiman was born in R ...

took the second seat, and the party was again part of the coalition. In 1959, a falling-out between Hanifes and Mapai led to Hanifes setting up a new party, the Independent Faction for Israeli Arabs, to fight the 1959 elections. Both parties failed to cross the electoral threshold, with Progress and Work receiving 0.5% of the votes, and the Independent Faction 0.4%. In the 1961 elections, the party won 0.4% of the vote. After its second failure to cross the threshold, the party disappeared.

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