The truth is that for the most part it was a community made up of Ashkenazi Jews
because the majority of readers of HaOlam HaZeh were Ashkenazi Jews.
However much we tried,
'screwing the blacks' didn't bring us black readers.
On the contrary, I think a lot of the Mizrahi Jews were
were initially deterred by this; they didn't want anyone to talk
about this subject.
They hid, and this shamed them.
But we had a large branch in Or Yehuda.
A branch of Herut, an entire branch came over to us.
A side effect of this was that
we discovered that agents from Israel had placed bombs
in synagogues in Baghdad.
This group was aware of this secret and gave it to us.
We had a very large branch in Arad
which was at that time another pioneering city.
We got a lot of votes in northern Tel Aviv
and on the Carmel in Haifa
and we went to the elections.
We conducted our election campaign at HaOlam HaZeh.
We had no other money.
We had the right, I believe, to 10 minutes on the radio.
Israel did not yet have television.
The smallest parties could get 10 minutes.
We prepared three broadcasts
and we had a picnic at Achziv
with campfires and slept there overnight.
We did all kinds of things that did not cost money.
And then Election Day arrived.
We had the picnic in very high spirits
and it was very 'Israeli'
and we did that kind of thing a few times.
I had an activity in Wadi Ara.
One day we had a convoy.
We had a lot of convoys.
After all, we did not have a lot of people.
When you collect 100 people on the street
on the street it seems very small,
but if you take 100 people and divide them between 25 cars
it's huge, it's a huge convoy.
And so we had convoys to all sorts of places.
We had the convoy to Wadi Ara.
I gave a speech eight times in one day.
And that was where I had this problem about the disagreement
between me and Amos Oz.
Amos Oz said: 'I formulate a particular wording,
I stick to it. I repeat it over and over and over'.
I'm not capable of doing that. I cannot make the same speech twice.
So between every village, each time, I looked for a new format
We got Arab votes, by the way,
quite a few.
Election day came,
they asked me in advance, 'How many do you think you'll get?'
'I hope for two,
I dream of three,
I'm not sure that I'll even get one'.
This formula, by the way, I repeated during all of the election campaigns.