JERUSALEM (JTA)—A foreign ministry spokesman said that Is- rael "has no obligation to treat seriously" a resolution on the Palestinians passed by the United Nations General Assembly Dec. 8 by a 47-22 vote with 50 nations abstaining. The resolution, previously ap- proved by the special political committee, recognizes that The people of Palestine" deserve "equal rights and self determination" and "full respect for (their) inaliena- ble rights" as "an indispensible element" of peace in the Middle East. Somalia, one of the eight nations sponsoring the resolution, request ed in advance of the vote that it be declared "unimportant" so as not to require a two-thirds ma- jority for passage. The foreign ministry spokes. man said Israel could not take seriously a resolution which the General Assembly itself defined as unimportant. He noted that many of the 50 nations which abstained based their abstention on the "unimportance"' of the vote. There was no official comment here on a resolution calling op Israel to repatriate the Arab refu- gees of the June 1967 war, which the General Assembly passed by a 93-5 vote with 17 abstentions. The United States, Britain and France joined the majority. It was opposed by Israel and four Cen- tral American nations. The U.S. voted with Israel against the reso- lution on the Palestinians. The Palestinian resolution was supported by the Arab bloc, the Soviet Union, Ceylon, Czechoslo- vakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Greece, India, Pakistan and Spain. Italy, the Netherlands and Canada Knesset to Debate Diaspora Learning, Student Exchange JERUSALEM (JTA)—The prob- lems of Jewish education in the diaspora will be the subject of a full-scale debate in the Knesset shortly. A motion calling for such a de. bate was swiftly adopted after it was introduced by Yitzhak Korn, Labor MK, as a private member s motion. It was one of the rare oc- casions when a private moticn has been accepted by the chamber. Korn, who is chairman of the world Labor Zionist movement, deplored the fact that only a fraction of Jewish youth in the world is getting a Jewish educa- tion. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon who also is Minister of Education and Culture, said he was in favor of debating the subject. He claimed, however, that his ministry was doing a great deal to further Jew- ish education overseas and cited a recent agreement with the Jew ish Agency's department of educa tion and .culture. He disclosed that Israel's edu- cational television trust was going to produce a series of films foz distribution to Jewish schools abroad as one way to alleviate the shortage of teachers. Korn proposed an exchange of students and teachers with dias- pora communities. He proposed a system of mass "adoption" of Jewish pupils abroad—meaning bringing them to Israel — for periods of up to a year for studies. He also called for an increased allocation of Hebrew teachers from Israel for the diaspora and anlargement of facilities in Israel to train teachers from abroad. were among the nations casting opposing votes, and Britain, France and Japan were among the many abstainers. Israel was the only abstainer on an American-sponsored resolution noting the "critical" financial situation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). It passed by 111-2-1. Israel sup- ported another resolution for con- tinued "humanitarian assistance" to the 1967 refugees which passed by a vote of 114-1-2. The resolution contained a "strong appeal" for more UNRWA funds. Later, "Filibuster, obstruction and procedural maneuvers" by "a most peculiar combination of states" were blamed by a key figure in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for the shelving of a proposal to establish a UN high commissioner for human rights.