Rehovot's Prof. Ephraim Katchalski Front-Runner as President; Tsur Out ,= 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. A spokesman for the Jew- WASHINGTON—The Bnai stamped business-size en- Brith Philatelic Service has velope for each cover). available a first-day cover issued by West Germany carrying a 40-pfennig stamp honoring German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. 2 fon" The stamp was issued in Dusseldorf Dec. 13, 1972, the 175th anniversary of the Papertique poet's birth. 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