(Mifleget Havodah in Hebrew) An Israeli political party, first named Mapai, that emerged out of the Labor Zionist movement of the 1930s, which was based on socialist ideas. The party’s leaders include many of the principal founders of the State of Israel, including the first Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Labor dominated the Israeli government until 1977, when the rival Likud party came into power. Labor came to power again  in the 1990s, emerging as the leading Israeli political party favoring territorial compromise for peace and the party that first officially recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization. After the collapse of the Oslo Process and the onset of the Second Intifada, Labor lost control of the Prime Ministership. In 2006, several key Labor party members joined with dissident Likud party members to form the Kadima party, and in 2011, Labor Chairman Ehud Barak broke away with four other Labor party lawmakers to form the Independence party. See “Labor.” 1 February 2008. YNet News. 28 September 2011. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3498355,00.html; Sanders, Edmund. “Israel’s Labor Party splits; Ehud Barak forms new faction.” Los Angeles Times. 17 January 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/17/world/la-fg-israel-labor-party-20110118; and Kershner, Isabel. “Israel’s New Labor Leader Faces a Party in Decline.” The New York Times. 22 September 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/world/middleeast/Shelly-Yachimovich-new-leader-for-israels-labor-party.html.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/labor-party