Gen. Laskov Quits Ports Authority
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 2, 1970-41
in Clash With Histadrut Official
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The con-
troversy between the Israel Ports
Authority and Histadrut has been
aggravated by - the resignation of
Gen. Haim Laskov as director of
the authority.
The former air force commander
and chief of staff rejected the
pleas of the authority's board
members to withdraw his resigna-
tion, which had been called for
by Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, secretary
general of Histadrut and a former
minister of transport and com-
munications.
Ben-Aharon has charged that
Gen. Laskov was incapable of
maintaining relations with Israeli
port workers, who have staged
frequent and crippling strikes.
A cabinet committee headed by
Minister of Agriculture Haim
Gvati concluded that Ben-Aharon's
charges were unsubstantiated. It
distributed the blame for the
strained labor relations equally
among all involved parties, in-
cluding Histadrut, the general
labor federation. But the com-
mittee also recommended restric-
tions on the Ports Authority's in-
dependence and increased control
by the transport minister, which
led to Gen. Laskov's resignation.
In a television interview, he ex-
plained that the committee report,
which he said the board was
about to adopt, "would empty my
function of all its content." It
would also, he said, "make the
Ports Authority as such redundant
and expose it to the influence of
various pressure groups to which
it has so far been immune."
Ben-Aharon issued a statement
that declared: "I respect Laskov's
decision."
Dr. Naftali Wydra, chairman of
the Ports Authority board, and
eight board members decided to
urge Transport Minister Shimon
Peres to dissuade Gen. Laskov
from resigning.
Larry Freedman
1970
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JERUSALEM — Some two hun-
dred Arabs and Jews gathered at
the Jerusalem Khan Theater re-
cently for an Arab-Jewish cultural
program held under the auspices
of the adult education center of the
Hebrew University and featuring
an address by Jerusalem Mayor
Teddy Kollek on "Coexistence in
Jerusalem—Challenges and Prob-
lems."
Cosponsoring the program was
"The Pact of the Sons of Shem,"
an organization of Israeli Jews and
Arabs whose president is Mrs.
Ruth Dayan, wife of the defense
minsiter. The organization, which
was initiated in early 1968, has
approximately 100 members almost
evenly divided among Jews and
Arabs, and has branches in sev-
eral parts of IsraeL
In the audience were a number
of Israeli Arabs, including attorney
Taiyiba, who is a member of the
Tailyiba, who is a member of the
board of the Sons of Shem, as well
as several Arabs from East Jeru-
salem and vicinity.
Kalman Yaron, director of the
unlaeraitY's adult education cen-
ter,, which is in its fourth year
of promoting a cultural and
social bridge between Arabs and
Jews addressed the audience.
He explained why a number of
Jerusalem Arabs stayed away.
Many of the approximately 250
East Jerusalem Arabs studying
at the adult education center
bad caned him during the day
to announce they could not at-
tend, as they were worried about
the fate of members of their
families in Jordan.
Yaron reported on the center's
future plans, including construc-
tion on the university's Mount
Scopus campus of a. building for
the activities of the adult educa-
tion center, a community hall for
Arab-Jewish meetings. The build-
ing is to be named after Martin
Buber, who in the early 1930s was
a spiritual leader of Arab-Jewish
understanding and one of the foun-
ders of the adult education center.
Mrs. Dayan emphasized that the
organization. is unpolitical and
deals only with social and cultural
relations between the two Semitic
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