Mapam

Mapam
מפ"ם
LeaderYitzhak Tabenkin
Meir Ya'ari
Ya'akov Hazan
Meir Talmi
Victor Shem-Tov
Yair Tzaban
Haim Oron
FoundedJanuary 1948
Dissolved1997
Merger ofHashomer Hatzair Workers Party
Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement
Merged intoMeretz
NewspaperAl HaMishmar (Hebrew)
Al-Mirsad (Arabic)
Israel Shtime (Yiddish)
IdeologyLabor Zionism
Marxism (Hatzair faction)
Socialism
Borochovism
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
AllianceAlignment (1969–1984)
Meretz (1992–1997)
Most MKs20 (1949–1951)
Fewest MKs3 (1988–1992)
Election symbol
(1949–1965), (1988)

Mapam was a left-wing political party in Israel. It is one of the antecedents of the Meretz party and its successor, The Democrats.