Moshe Dwek

On October 29, 1957, while the Knesset (then located in Frumin House in downtown Jerusalem) was in session, Dwek, who was standing on a balcony, threw a grenade he had stolen from the army into the chamber.

Dwek's assassination attempt resulted in the establishment of the Knesset Guard and Shin Bet's VIP protection unit.

Although he was portrayed as psychologically unbalanced,[4] a panel of experts agreed that he was fit to stand trial and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, part of which he spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Following the grenade attack, Ben-Gurion wrote a personal letter to his parents, who were living in a hut, without electricity, in a village near Tel Aviv.

The party platform called for an end to Ashkenazi hegemony, and integrating the Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews into the leadership by giving them half of all government ministries, as well as widespread representation in the Knesset, municipalities, and the Jewish Agency.

Its other demands included setting up a university, college, and a religious polytechnic institute in the coastal city of Netanya.