Non-Confidenc e Motion Against Eshkol Govt.
Defeated in Knesset as Coalition Stands Firm
JERUSALEM (JTA) —With the
Ile also said that Kimche's ar-
full backing of all the parties that ti•le on unemployment in Israel
are members of the government was the cause for his dismissal be-
coalition, Prime Minister Levi Esh- cause it contained a veiled`call for
kol's government Monday by a discontinuation of efforts toward
vote of 62-41 overrode a motion in Jewish emigration to Israel from
the Knesset (Parliament) that Britain at the very time when ap-
would have expressed lack of con- , peals for emigration to Israel were
fidence in the government. i being made •
England.
The line-up against the govern-
The Jewish Observer and Middle
ment was the most complete mus- East Review, which was suspended
tered during the present regime by in the clash that ended with the
the opposition parties. The voting dismissal of Kimche as editor, ap-
came on a motion submitted by peared March 16, according to
Rafi, the Israel Workers Party led schedule. Dr. Leo Shafler, deputy
by former Prime Minister David general secretary of the British
Ben-Gurion, and Gahal, the fusion Zionist Federation, will serve as
of Herut and Liberal Parties. How- acting editor until a new editor is
ever, all the other opposition par- chosen. The federation is a major-
ties including the pro-Israel Com- ity stockholder in the company
munist Party, the "new Commu- publishing the Observer.
nists. Agudath Israel and Haolam
Arie Ben-Eliexer of IIerut, who
Hazeh stated their lack of confi-
made the motion for Gahal, told
dence separately.
the Knesset that the severe eco-
All the opposition members cri- nomic crisis had followed "arti-
ticized the government for the eco- ficial affluence." Ile put the
non-tic crisis at home and for the
number of unemployed at 75,000
alleged lowering of Israel's pres- - to 100,000. He decried the govern-
tige abroad, but coalition partners ' Tien" "extreme nervousness"
backed the government solidly, as manifested in the Bul and
and the single no confidence mo- Kimche case.
tion, presented by Rafi and Gahl.
On behalf of Rafi, Gen. Moshe
fell through after an address by . Dayan told the Knesset that there
Eshkol.
was no way for the opposition to
"This government," Eshkol put through a non-cofidence motion
told parliament, "has been shout- that would topple the government
without "a crisis inside he coali-
dering burdens which none of the
preceding governments dared lion." However, he said, the pur-
lift." Ile alluded to the possibil- pose of the non-confidence motion,
which Rafi supported, was to give
ity of renewed Jewish immigra-
tion from abroad "coming short- parliament the opportunity to ex-
ly, not only from countries of amine what the government has
affluence." The government, he clone or failed to do.
stated, "enjoys the continued
suppdrt of Jewry abroad," and Soviet Court Sentences
has proved its intimate contacts
with Jewish leaders around the
world.
In that context, he declared, the
Bul and Kimche cases were sec-
ondary affairs, "although no Israel
government should ever tell Jews
abroad to keep out of Israeli
affairs." "On the contrary," he
stated, "our aim should be to in-
crease the engagement and the
commitment of Diaspora Jews in
Israeli matters."
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The government's principal "un-
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an, was its pledge that the eco-
nomic recession would not cause
large-scale unemployment. He said
that emigration from Israel of
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uates has increased, manpower
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Nazis to Death in Absentia
1 MONTREAL (JTA) — A Soviet
Unemployment in Israel, the court in Latvia sentenced three
prime minister maintained, was former Nazis to death in absentia
much lower than the figures men. for murdering Jews during World
Honed by the opposition. Even the War H, Michael Garber, president
figures on registrations of persons of the Canadian Jewish Congress,
as unemployed were wrong, he was informed officially Monday by
said, because these figures include the Latvian Soviet Socialist Re-
people living on income as well as Public• part of the USSR.
students who do not look fur work.
The Latvian SSR sent Garber
Critizicing those who attack Is- t he full transcript of the trial,
rael, "at home or abroad," Eshkol showing that one of the men foun d
took the opportunity to announce guilty lives now in Toronto, a
that the two editors of the weekly second is in Brooklyn. and the
magazine Bul, receoly sentenced third in Karlsruhe, West Germany'
The material sent fo Garber in-
to one-year prison terms for en-
the state's security, will eluded photographs that had fig-
tired
in the trial of the three men
be freed from jail just before Pass-
be
G
over, which starts April 24. They Garber
said it will be translated
had previously been scheduled for from the original Russian into
English
and will be made avail-
in connection with Israel
Independence Day, to be celebrat- able to government authorities in
Independence
Canada,
•
ed this year on May 15.
the United States and
The men, he said, will be re- West Germany.
(A former SS man, Philip Men-
leased earlier because the Cabinet
does not want to ignore petitions zinger ' was sentenced to fife im-
from abroad, where the impression • prisonment last week . after being
had been created that the Minds- convicted of the murder of eight
onment of the men was an infringe- Jews, including -a child, in eastern
ment on freedom of expression. Europe during the summer of 1943.
Testimony at his trial indicated
• The men. he said, had in reality
undermined confidence in the state Menzinger had killed for pleasure.)
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on the whole, and not only in the
.government.
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Eshkol refuted references in
the Israeli press which had in-
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JOHANNESBURG — Two Jews
others in prison are there after were named here Tuesday to
due process of law. In the But South African Government posts,
case. Eshkol noted, the ban oh while a third was elected by the
publishing reports about the ar- Johannesburg City Council as Dep-
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Turning to the case of Jon Kim- terms as a member of the prime
che, the dismissed editor of the • minister's scientific council. David
Jewish Observer and Middle East ! Miller, forMer principal of the
Review of London; Eshkol charged Cape Town High - School, was
that the publication had printed named to membership on the new
material influenced by a member national advisory education coun-
of Rafi "with whom Kimche is cit y The council will assist the
friendly." lie was believed to ! minister of education to implement
have referred to Shimon Peres, the new policies now being debated
former deputy defense minister in parliament for a new national
who is one of the Rafi leaders. educational policy.
Eshkol said that an article by ' In this city, the new deputy
Kimche not only asked for the res- mayor is Israel Schlapobersky, a
ignation of Minister of • Justice- member of the City Council for
Yaacov Shapiro, but "cast suspi-, a number of years and • former
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