But there is no peace. Israel is in danger. We need those people." The old man in the gray turtleneck sweater. khaki trousers and black slippers rose from behind the simple pine desk and moved about the bare room decorated only by glass bookshelves and littered by mounds of books stacked on the floor and strewn haphazardly across a long pine table. "The decline in immigration is one disappointment." he continued. "Another is our. electoral system." When Britain closed the books on its Palestine mandate. he recalled. Israel was immediately plunged into war and was ruled by an emergency administration that wielded often dictatorial powers. When the armistice came on Jan. 9. 1949. elections were immediately scheduled.
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