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Meanwhile, Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the ' World
Zionist Organization, held his
first "working session" with lead-
ers of the Liberal Party before
launching a schedule of election
speeches at eight mass rallies
throughout Israel.
Arriving in Israel by plane
from the United States, the
world Jewish leader was met
at the airport by Liberal Party
chiefs and a large corps of
newsmen.

Perilous Approach

Goldmann declared that who-
ever claimed that a non-Israeli
Jew - had no right to Israel was
taking a perilous approach lead-
ing toward a separation between
Israel and Jews in other coun-
tries which could be dangerous,
if not fatal, to Israel. He said
there could be no separation
between Israel and Jews else-
d that therefore the
between the two
not limited to
ut included the
n-Israeli Jew to
nt and express
key problems of

ing on his American
Goldmann added later
he had had an Israeli
port, he would not have
succeeded in obtaining "those
millions of dollars for the su
vivors of the Nazi regime."
question, he remarked,
"how many millions for
Jewish nation is my pas
worth?" He also stressed
when his house, now under c
struction • in Jerusalem, wa
completed he would settle in
Israel and bring his family
here.
•
* * *
Mapai sources indicated they
were dissatisfied about Gold-
mann's participation in the Lib-
eral party election campaign,
claiming that his post as presi-
dent of the world Zionist move-
ment had been entrusted to
him as a non-party personality;
that his action in joining the
Liberal party was done without
consulting the Zionist- Actions
Committee, and that he had
sent letters to Zionists in the
United States asking donations
for the Liberal Party election
fund.
Goldmann's initial plunge into
Israeli politics; keyed to the
theme that Israel should adopt
a neutralist policy between the
Eastern and Western blocs,
and should also seek integra-
tion in the region, sparked
widespread discussion through-
out the country.

In the first two of the
series of scheduled election
addresses for the Liberal
Party. Goldmann described
Israel's at policy as no
policy at all. Declaring that
Israel's foreign policy had not
changed in the past decade,
Goldmann said it was "short.
sighted" for Israel not to
seek some sort of integration
in the region because all
present world
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necessitating new national
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to large and enthus-
crowds, charged that Is-
. was neg ed na
ich he s
thin a fe ye
in the or
there was
Isra
tacked rael of
"wait and see and don't do any-
thing, or staying put, of being

afraid to try anything new."
He urged the neutralization
of the Middle East through hav-
ing both blocs ensure the peace
of the region. He warned that
time was not working in Israel's
favor and expressed the opin-
ion that neutralization of the
Middle East would finally corn-
pel the Arabs to give up their
dreams of destroying Israel
with Communist aid and create
the chance that the Arabs might
accept Israel as an established
fact. He denied that he had
ever favored territorial conces-
sions to the Arabs or accept-
ance of Arab refugees by Israel.

Mapai Reacts

The Goldmann speeches gal-
vanized the Mapai Party, the
principal architect of the for-
eign policy he was so strongly
criticizing. The Mapai secre-
tariat called a special session
to discuss what to do but no
decision was reached.
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's For-
eign Minister, irritated by Gold-
mann's attack on the foreign
policy for which she is re-
sponsible, asked for a clear-cut
decision of approval for Mapai
speakers to attack Goldmann.
She was seconded by Agricul-
ture Minister Moshe Dayan.
However, Prime Minis
Ben-Gurion
Giora
ction.
* * *
The absence of
cision not to at
was taken by
Education Min
Finance Minis
and Deputy Defense
Shimon Peres as a green
fiercely criticized

* * *

The ultra-Orthodox Workers

his ne
which they said were tanta-
mount to putting Israel under
the influence of the other power
bloc.
While the Mapai speakers did
not deny the right of any Jew
to come to Israel and discuss
major issues, they argued it
was improper for a non-Israeli
Jew to come and "belittle" Is-
rael in the eyes of the world.

Goldmann apparently was
undisturbed by these charges.
In his second address in
Jaffa he explained his views
in a mixture of Yiddish and
Hebrew to a large audience
which included many new im-
migrants. He was warmly ap-
plauded.

In his third major election
effort, Goldmann suggested in
a full-pa6 article in Maariv, an
Israeli daily, that President
Nasser of the United Arab Re-
public might be sold .on accept-
ing Israel if Israel was willing
to cooperate in an Arab regional
policy.
Among the reactions to Gold-
mann's entry into Israel's elec-
tion campaign was that he had
injected into the election de-
bate the issue of an Israel-Arab
settlement from a point of view
other than the standard Israeli
position on how best to assure

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NEWS — Friday, August 11, 1961

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
present election campaign in
Israel will cost more than any
of the previous national elec-
tions held since the establish-
ment of Israel but it is prac-
tically certain that it will call
out the least number of voters
ever in electing members to
the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
This became clear a week be-
lore election day, although at-
tendance at election rallies has
increased during the last few
days. Earlier, the public evinced
little interest in the campaign
Meetings. The elections will be
held Aug. 15.
Because the voting in this
year's elections takes place in
the summer—the previous elec-
tions were held in the fall—
there will be quite a large
number of absentees. In addi-
tion, it, is anticipated that many
will abstain from voting be-
cause of lack of interest. It is
also expected that many voters
will cast blank ballots
onstrate their ,
the result
their pr
ecessary.
were

Israel against Arab attack.
All of Israel's parties stepped
up the pace of campaigning with
hundreds of meetings covering
every section of Israel where a
voter might be found. Spe
ers were making dozens of
each day on tours cover
un-
dreds of miles. Ne papers
were packed with so itations
for votes, most of th
placed
by Mapai and the Liber
arty.
An attempted campaign
vation by the Liberals—elec-
tioneering on trains—was halted
by Judge Zvi Berinson, chair-
man of the Central Election
Committee. He said that the
practice of Josef Sapir and
other Liberal speakers of con-
ducting talks and discussions on
trains moving between Jeru-
Salem, Tel Aviv and Haifa was
illegal because the election law
banned the use of government-
owned property was banned and
the trains are government-
owned.

