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Peres was expected to secure a comfortable reelection as party leader. Rabin attempted to persuade the delegates comprising the electorate that he was more popular than Peres, and therefore presented the party with a greater chance at leading in the 1981 Knesset election.
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had been campaigning to unseat Peres as party leader, but his prospects of winning were seen as weak. Allon was a political rival of Peres.
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was held on 18 December 1980. It saw the delegates to the party's convention reelect
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524:"Tens of Thousands of People Attend Funeral of Yigal Allon"
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494:"Yigal Allon, Israel's Ex-Foreign Minister"
399:"Israeli Labor Party leadership contested"
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472:"Geleral Allon: Jews' Audacious Officer"
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377:References
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205:Background
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312:Results
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