The Israeli Bund chapter presented a list at the 1959 Knesset election, under the name Socialist Union, but failed to win a seat with only 1,322 (0.1%) votes of the roughly 8,100 required.
[1][2][3] As such, the organisation became focused on the Bundist ideals of Doikeit or "Hereness", promoting Yiddish culture in Israel in the same way they had in their countries of origin.
[1] The Israeli Bund ran biweekly meetings, lectures, a theatre troupe, and a choir.
He was also the founder and first editor of Lebns Fragn (see below) and a correspondent of an American Trotskyist magazine “Labor Action”.
[5] The Israeli Bundist magazine was Lebns Fragn (Yiddish: לעבנס־פֿראַגן, Life questions), founded in May 1951 by Isachar Artuski, the responsible editor was Ben-Zion "Bentsl" Tsalevitsh (1883-1967), who moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1922.