Labour -- the party once led by David Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin -- was in danger of collapse two months ago.

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In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.

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Nevertheless, remarkable progress has been made in the 100 years since Theodor Herzl assembled the first Zionist congress, in the half century since David Ben Gurion inaugurated modern Israel, in the two decades since Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat achieved their breakthrough at Camp David, and even in the four years since former Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman Arafat, and President Clinton met on the White House lawn.

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