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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Disputes Mark Israel Politics
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
The Israeli press is full of
reports about disputes in Is-
rael's political parties.
The ruling Likud bloc
consists of three partners:
Herut, Liberals and Laam.
In the Herut Movement
there is strong opposition in
the central committee
against its chairman, Ab-
raham Shechterman. The
opposition maintains that
the central committee is not
functioning and there is
practically no leadership.
Premier Menahem Begin
had to intervene personally
in order to stop the cam-
paign against Shechter-
man.
In the Tel Aviv Branch
there is a strong fight bet-
ween the partisans of Prof.
Moshe Arens (the chairman
of the Foreign and Security
Committee of the Knesset)
and Yigael Griffel (the vice
mayor of Tel Aviv) over the
chairmanship of the Tel
Aviv Branch.
In the Liberal Party, a re-
bellion of the young leaders
against the old guard is felt.
There is strong criticism
against the party leader,
Finance Minister Simha
Ehrlich, on account of the
wage agreement with His-
tadrut. Party members
maintain that Ehrlich had
not consulted them prior to
the agreement.
The Laam faction con-
sists of former Rafi mem-
bers, led by Yigael Hur-
vitz (minister for com-
merce, industry and
tourism), the indepen-
dent center, led by
Elieser Shostak (health
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minister) and the Move- which threatens to split
ment for a Greater Eretz Laam. Rumors are that the
Israel led by Moshe former Rafi members might
Shamir. It is a mixture of join a bloc with Foreign
former socialists and re- Minister Moshe Dayan.
visionists, of former par- Dayan has already ap-
tisans of David Ben- pointed a leader of Laam,
Gurion and Vladimir Zalman Shoval, in the
Foreign Ministry.
Jabotinsky.
The Democratic Move-
A rift has developed bet-
ween Hurvitz and Shostak ment for Change is split into
two camps, one supporting
Chairman Yigael Yadin,
Gur Apologizes
another demanding his res-
ignation.
to Sephardim
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Re-
tired Chief of Staff Gen.
Mordechai Gur has
apologized for what was
construed as a star on
Sephardic Jews and
explained that his remarks
were intended for the be-
nefit of that community. He
also apologized in writing to
Shaul Ben Simhon, chair-
man of the Association of
North African Jews in Is-
rael.
Gur, who returned from a
trip to Europe, faced an up-
roar caused by an interview
published in Al Hamishmar
in which he was quoted as
saying that the reason why
there were so few senior of-
ficers in the army of Orien-
tal background was that it
takes them much longer
than others to master the
intricacies of modern West-
ern technology.
The implication was
that Oriental Jews lack
the mentality to grasp the
concepts of sophisticated
weaponry. Those views
were promptly de-
nounced by the leaders of
North African Jews.
They said that if Orien-
tals were deficient in any
way it was because of
poor living conditions
and educational disad-
vantages of growing up
in slums.
Gur put through a tele-
phone call from Paris ex-
pressing regret that his re-
marks had been misun-
derstood. He said he made
them only to stress the need
for improving the condi-
tions of Oriental Jews and
raising them to the level of
the rest of society.
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Perelman, president of the
post-graduate university,
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TEL AVIV —The Nahum
Goldmann Chair in Diplo-
macy was inaugurated at
Tel Aviv University last
month. The chair was set up
to undertake scientific re-
search and "reach a better
understanding of the in-
tricacies of international re-
lations"; to study the work
of Nahum Goldmann; and to
collect documents and re-
cords of his diplomatic
career.
Speakers paying tribute
to Goldmann were: Prof.
Haim Ben-Shahar, Prof.
Saul Abarbanel, rector of
Tel Aviv University; Arye
Dulzin, head of the World
Zionist Organization; and
Philip Klutznik, chairman
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