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Levi Eshkol Is Back in Israel
With Johnson's Message of
Friendship; Visits France Next
(Direct JTA Teletype wire
to The Jewish News)
UJA Honors Premier
placed on ties with Israel and cul-
TELAVIV—Prime Minister Levi Loral exchanges extended.
He said that most Israeli Jews
Eshkol said Monday that in his
talks with President Johnson, the were determined not to permit
American Chief Executive express- "extremist courses one way or
ed friendship and esteem for Is- the other to rip apart the basic
rael and stressed it was in the spiritual unit of our people."
United States' interest to maintain
On his return to Israel, he
Israel's integrity and peace in the spoke with great satisfaction of
Middle East.
his meetings with Hebrew-
The Prime Minister returned to speaking Jewish boys and girls
Israel after a brief rest in Switzer- in various cities in the United
land followinc his whirlwind 12-day States.
tour of the United
States as the
''
A military guard of honor repre-
first Israel premier to visit Amer-
ica on an official invitation by a senting all defense units was in-
spected by the Premier before he
United States President.
proceeded to Jerusalem. He was
Meanwhile, it was announced
welcomed at the airport by Knesset
here that Premier Eshkol will
Speaker Kaddish Luz, members of
confer with President Charles
and diplomatic corps.
de Gaulle, Premier Georges the Cabinet
The latter was headed by Russian
Pompidou and other key French
Ambassador Mikhail Bodrov and
government officials during a
American Ambassador Walworth
visit to Paris beginning June 28.
Barbour, who had just returned to
The Prime Minister's plane ar- Israel from Washington where he
rived at Lydda Airport escorted was on duty during the Eshkol
by four Mirage interceptor jets visit to the United States. Chief
which later staged a flypast in of Staff Yitzhak Rabin came by
salute to the Premier.
helicopter from Army exercises in
In his statement at the airport, Southern Israel.
the Prime Minister said his visit
The Prime Minister faced a hec-
contributed greatly to the deepen- tic week of internal problems. The
ing of friendship and mutual under- leftist Achdut Avodah plans to raise
standing between Israel and the the proposal of former Prime Min-
United States.
ister David Ben Gurion that the
He called his talks with Presi- dominant Mapai party make its
dent Johnson "open and keen" and next platform a proposal to change
said they included an exchange of Israel's election system to a district
views on many world and regional representation type similar to that
of Britain. Achdut Avodah has con-
problems.
Discussing the announced United tended that the proposal jeopard-
States-Israel joint plans for re- izes cooperation between it and
search into the possibilities of ap- Mapai.
plication of nuclear energy to de-
Government officials also have
salting seawater announced at the expressed dissatisfaction over the
close of the Premier's tow, he proposals which they feel could
said that after research had been hamper the work of the present
completed, a large plant would be coalition government.
built to produce "significant quanti-
Details of the Premier's 12-
ties" of desaltinated water for farm day visit to France were releas-
and industrial purposes.
ed here by authoritative sources.
It was indicated he regarded as
He also will meet with French
one of the principal achievements Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
an agreement with President John-
de Murville, Defense Minister
son for perio di c high-levels
Pierre Messmer and others. Ac-
contacts to discuss emerging prob-
companied by Mrs. Eshkol,
lems. Considerable importance Deputy Defense Minister Shi-
was attached to the personal mon Peres and other members
contacts established between the
of his entourage, the Premier
Premier and the President. It will arrive at Paris airport.
was understood that the President
The Premier will be guest of
asked Eshkol to continue personal honor on June 29 at a luncheon
consultations with him, aiming at tendered by the French Premier
a continuous, rather than a crisis- at his official residence. During
to-crisis, consultation over Mid-East the second day of his visit, the
Premier also will confer separately
problems.
with President De Gaulle and with
The Premier found high re-
the French foreign minister.
gard for Israel in the United
The French Israeli Friendship
States. In contacts with Jewish
Association will give the Premier
leaders he found the distinction
a luncheon on the third day during
between Zionist and non-Zionists
which he will also meet with a
had become blurred and that he
number of French Cabinet minis-
could make calls for aliyah dur-
ing his visit which would have ters and other personalities.
He will speak at a July 1 lunch-
been unacceptable to American
eon organized by the French dip-
Jewry a decade ago. He urged
such immigration in a talk at the lomatic press and the Foreign Press
Association. In the evening he will
Hebrew Union College, the Re-
be host at a dinner tendered by
form rabbinical seminary. He
Israel Ambassador Walter Eytan
said more young people were
coming to Israel from the Eng- in honor of the French Cabinet
ministers and other French person-
lish and Spanish-speaking coun-
alities.
tries, adding that in 1963 the
Several thousand members of
total number of such immigrants
France's political, artistic and
was nearly 10,000.
business worlds will be intro-
He told a commencement aud-
duced to the Premier at a gar-
ience at Yeshiva University, where den party that evening arranged
he was awarded an honorary de-
by Eytan.
gree, that the relationship be-
Eshkol will be the luncheon
tween Israel and other Jewish guest, in his capacity as Isreal de-
communities, as well as the future fense minister, of French Minister
of Jewish life in the United States, Messmer on July 2 and will visit
depended on whether Jewish spir- the local Jewish community cen-
itual continuity could be sustained ter in the afternoon. For the next
in freedom. He emphasized re- three days, the Israeli Premier will
peatedly the importance of Jewish visit industrial, agricultural and
education as a protection against military sites outside of Paris.
assimilation. In such education,
He will then have a rest until
he said, more emphasis should be July 8 when he will be guest of
honor at a luncheon given by the
Fonds Social Juif Unifie, the cen-
CASH FOR
tral Jewish welfare agency.
On July 9, the Premier and his
ISRAEL BONDS
party will leave for Israel.
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Friday, June 19, 1964
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U.S. Names 3 Experts in Start
Toward Desalination Project
WASHINGTON (JTA) — T h e between 1968 and 1970. It will
U.S. Government, working with take between 10 and 30 years for
speed to implement the joint the program to become operation-
American-Israel survey of nuclear al on a scale of worldwide impor-
desalination possibilities in Israel, tance. President Johnson report-
Monday made known the identities edly is enthusiastic about the
of the three American experts des- ultimate goal of his long-range
ignated as the U.S. representatives. thinking on the project and Israel
They are Milton Chase, of the would find its agricultural poten-
U.S. Department of Interior, an tial, particularly for its citrus
expert on electrical power and staff crops, of tremendous importance.
assistant on water and power de- But experts pointed out that the
velopment; Stewart F. Mulford, first large-scale program must be
saline water conversion expert, De- pilot study. The second project
partment of the Interior, and Irv- would be more effective.
At the dinner given in honor
ing Spiewak, nuclear power expert
of Israel's Prime Minister Levi
The initial study will evaluate
of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Eshkol, prior to his return to
The names of the three Israeli possibilities of a nuclear reactor for
Israel, after a whirlwind visit
of de-
counterparts have not yet been of- the economical production
in this country, Max M. Fisher
salted water and electrical power,
ficially
announced.
It
was
learned
(left), who is slated to be UJA's
with a goal of 100,000,000 cubic
national general chairman in -that the U.S. officials are already meters of desalted water a year in
going "full steam ahead" on plans
1965, gave his views to the dis-
for the survey authorized by Presi- the first phase.
tinguished guest on plans for
dent Johnson.
expanded UJA activities.
(Israel's Deputy Minister of
Labor Leader Named
Defense Shimon Peres arrived
Histadrut Humanitarian
B-G Urges Change
in Paris Monday for high-level
NEW YORK (JTA) — A. Philip
talks with French officials. Peres
in Electoral System
Randolph, president of the Broth-
came here from New York where
he accompanied Premier Esh- erhood of Sleeping Car Porters
as Mapai Platform
kol on his recent American tour.
and a leader in the civil rights
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Former He is expected to ask France to
movement, was presented with the
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion participate in the Eilat nuclear
1964 Histadrut Humanitarian
urged Israel's dominant Mapai desalination project.)
Award at a dinner of the National
party to adopt as their entire plat-
Peres, Dr. Glenn Seaborg, Committee for Labor Israel at-
form for the forthcoming election chairman of the American At- tended by some 600 labor and civic
campaign a proposal to change omic Energy Commission, two leaders.
Israel's electoral system to a dis- commissioners and officials of the
The award, a bronze plaque, was
trict representation type similar to Interior Department agreed on the
presented by Joseph Schlossberg,
basic program.
that of Britain.
president of the National Commit-
The joint United States-Israeli
Elimination of the present pro-
tee. Randolph was cited for his
portional representation system team will conduct surveys in the "outstanding services in promoting
next
few
months
"to
define
the
where the voters Cast their ballots
understanding between the peoples
for party lists on a countrywide scope and requirements of the pro- of the United States _and the State
gram,"
and
detailed
engineering
basis would tend to do away with
of Israel."
small party representation in the and economic studies will be car-
ried out jointly.
Knesset, Israel's parliament.
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Addressing a meeting attended
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by 500 Mapai leaders, Ben-Gurion communique said that it was hoped *from
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made
at
this
office.
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