Rehovot's Prof. Ephraim Katchalski
Front-Runner as President; Tsur Out
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Sapir, Galili and others Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JERUSALEM (JTA) Ya-
acov Tsur, one of the two have denied this. But the that he was "not surprised"
front runners in the race for sudden emergence of Katch- by the offer of the presidency
Israel's presidency, withdrew alski as a "dark horse" in- He said he had been "ap-
dicated a split within the proached before" on the sub-
Wednesday. •
Labor
Party. While Dr. Kat- ject.
His principal rival, deputy
Prof Katchalski was reach-
Knesset speaker Yitzhak Na- chalski enjoys an interna-
tional
reputation
in
the
scien-
ed
by telephone at the Mas-
von, was expected to pull
out by Thursday, clearing the tific world, he is not a public sachusetts Institute of Tech-
way for the candidacy of figure and is relatively un- nology, where he was partici-
pating in the dedication of a
Prof. Ephraim Katchalski of kown here and abroad.
Prof. Katchalski is the fellowship in the name of his
the Weizmann Institute of
Science, who has emerged brother of the late Prof. late brother.
as the choice of some of the Aharon Katzir-Katchalski, an- He is attending and partici-
most powerful leaders of th other eminent Weizmann In- pating in an Aharon Katchal-
Labor Party. A fourth can- stitute scientist who was a sky Memorial Symposium at
didate, Supreme Court Jus- victim of the Lod Airport the University of California,
tice Eliahu Mani, appeared massacre last May 30. Prof Berkeley through Saturday.
on the verge of withdrawal. Katchalski came to Palestine An international committee
Katchalski, 57-year-old Rus- from Russia in 1922 and re- for an Aharon Katzir-Katch-
sian-born biophysicist who is ceived his doctorate in sci- alsky Center in Physical Bi-
visiting the United States, has ence from the Hebrew Uni- ology is in the process of
in 1941. He joined the formation. It is chaired by
reportedly agreed to accept versity
Weizmann
Institute in 1949 Nobel Laureate Prof. Man-
T' • nomination. The Labor
..-ty's 620-member central and up to this month headed fred Eigen, director of the
Max Planck Institute in
Committee was to meet in its biophysics department.
Prof Katchalski told the Gottingen, West Germony.
Tel Aviv Thursday night to
select a presidential nominee
by secret ballot.
The Labor Party's choice Rabbi's Bicentennial Montage
is virtually assured of elec-
tion when the Knesset votes
May 25 to choose a successor
to President Zalman Shazar.
Navon, a leader of the Sep-
hardic community who is im-
mensely popular in the Knes-
set, was considered the front
irunner in the presidential
race until Tuesday when Dr.
Katchaiski's name came up
publicly for the first time.
Tsur's pullout came as a
surprise. The president of
the Jewish National Fund and
a former Israeli ambassador
to France, Tsar was believed
to have been Premier Golda
Meir's personal choice for the
presidency. But Mrs. Meir
said last week that she would
not interfere in her party's
choice.
It was reported Tuesday
that Dr. Katchalski was con-
tacted by telephone in Bos-
ton by members of a six-man
committee of Labor Party
leaders assigned the task of
recommending a candidate to
the central committee. It was
not known who spoke to the
scientist, but he is believed
to have been contacted by
Isral Galili, minister without
portfolio, who is a member
of the party's inner circle and
possibly by Finance Minister
Pinhas Sapir. All but one of
the six committee members
were reported Wednesday to
favor Katchalski. The lone
holdout was Transport Min-
ister Shimon Peres, who con-
tinued to back his old friend
Navon.
Navon, like Peres, belongs
to the Labor Party's Rafi
faction. The Rafi wing of the
party accused the Mapai and
Ahdut Avoda factions of de-
liberately trying to destroy
Navon's candidacy because of
his Rafi background.
dumper Yiddish
PORT HUENEME, Calif.
(JTA) — The parking lot at
the Naval Civil Engineering
Laboratory here is slowly be-
ginning to look like a metal-
lic textbook in misspelled
Yiddish.
California's six-letter-limit
personalized license plates
are doing it.
So far, Jewish employes at
NCEL are sporting "Hutzpa"
and "L'Kaim" on their ve-
hicles. Two more employes
at the laboratory have an-
nounced plans to add "Nud-
nik" and "Schlep" to NCEL's
rolling Jewish dictionary.
Rabbi Baal Hatov Baldt of New York is shown here
with his American Revolution Bicentennial montage which
is to be circulated around the country. U.S. Senate Republi-
can Minority Leader Hugh Scott is shown with Baldt signing
the montage.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sinai Settlement
Nahal Yam to
Be Abandoned
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Na-
hal Yam, a para-military
settlement on the northern
Sinai coast mid-way between
El Arish and the Suez Canal,
will be abandoned in favor
of a civilian fishing village.
The Jewish Agency settle-
ment department announce-
ment raised immediate spec-
ulation that the region was
being excluded from Israel's
future borders.
Questions to that effect
drew an angry response from
Minister-Without-Portfolio Is-
rael Galili, chairman of the
cabinet's settlement commit-
tee, who claimed that econ-
omic factors alone prompted
the decision.
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