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explained by the unprecedented, systemic erosion of wage - gaps, which directly served the group whose electoral behavior begs explanation . The relationship between MAPAI and the new oriental immigrants was characterized by mutual dependency, which did enable MAPAI to control this population within an institutional hierarchy . However, MAPAI was also utilizing this hierarchical structure to protect the Mizrachi newcomers from other social coteries . ABSTRACT The case study discussed in the current research reveals that at the dawn of statehood, the MAPAI government worked to restrict wage - inequality within the heterogenic Israeli society of the 1950 s . Israel’s political elite underwent internal confrontation between two contrasting approaches : socialist republicanism, whose adherents sought to control oriental immigrant workers, but also to protect them from the severe inter - generational implications of their low socio - economic status and to prevent significant wage gaps ; an...  אל הספר