Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75.1%. Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz left Mapam and set up the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda before joining Mapai. Four other members left Mapam to found Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion, but the move was not recognised by the Knesset speaker.