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(Netanyahu was featured in an article in the June 1 Jewish News.) Netanyahu will succeed Yehuda Blum, who last June con- cluded six years as Israeli repre- sentative to the world body. The appointment of Netanyahu was announced officially Sunday, after the first weekly Cabinet meeting of the newly installed unity government. Acting Cabinet Secretary Michael Nir said the appointment was endorsed unanimously, having been submitted by Yitzhak Shamir. In political circles, it is believed that Shamir was prompted to ap- point Netanyahu by the young diplomat's political patron and mentor, Minister-Without- Portfolio Moshe Arens. It was Arens who brought Netanyahu, then 33-years old, from an execu- tive position in industry into state service as Minister in Washing- ton when Arens was named Am- bassador there in 1982. News of Netanyahu's pending appointment to the UN was made public, unofficially, in the wake of private conversations between Shamir and Arens 10 days ago in which Shamir persuaded Arens, against Arens' original inclina- tion, to serve in the unity gov- ernment as Minister-Without- Portfolio. Arens had been Minis- ter of Defense in the Likud gov- ernment. Born in Israel in 1949 and edu- cated in the United States, Netanyahu is the younger brother of Yonatan Netanyahu, the Israel Defense Force commander who U.N. Ambassador Benyamin Netanyahu led and was killed in the Entebbe rescue operation in 1976. Be- nyamin has been the organizer of subsequet conferences and publi- cations on international ter- rorism in memory of his late brother. Netanyahu is considered a ris- ing star in the Herut firmament, with a future in politics if he chooses to go into political life. According to informed sources, though, he has carefully de- veloped contacts over recent months with Labor leaders — now top ministers — in the hope of at- taining the UN post. One disappointed hopeful was Foreign Minister legal adviser and a former confidant of the late Moshe Dayan, Elyakim Rubins- tein. He claimed that he was promised the UN position by Shamir earlier this year. Last week, Rubinstein, in a demon- strative act, formally submitted his candidacy to the Ministry's appointments committee. But the committee's decisions are merely recommendations. Shamir pushed the appointment through the Cabinet before the Ministry committee dealt with the matter. Neo-Nazi denies murder guilt in death of publisher Levin Bonn (JTA) — Prominent neo-Nazi leader Karl-Heinz Hoffmann has denied that he was involved in the murder of Jewish publisher Shlomo Levin and his female companion Frida Poes- chke on Dec. 19, 1980. He also said he would soon make a statement on his views about the Jewish people, which he said, would pro- vide evidence that he is not a "Jew-hater." Hoffman, the head of an ex- tremist neo-Nazi para-military group that called itself a sports organization until it was out- lawed by the authorities in 1980, is on trial for having plotted the murders of Levin and Poeschke, killed in Levin's home in Er- langen, southern Germany. The prosecution, on the opening day of the trial in Nuremberg last week, claimed that the actual kil- ling was carried out by 29-year- old Uwe Behrendt, a member of the Hoffmann group who commit- ted suicide in September 1981 while in a military training camp run by the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. Hoffmann admitted that he provided Behrendt with a plane ticket for his escape from West Germany. But he added that the ticket was not purchased prior to the killing and that it was not prearranged. Hoffmann's female companion, Franziska Birkmann, is accused of aiding and abetting in the murders. State Prosecutor Otto Horn as- serted that Hoffmann and more than a dozen of his supporters fled to Lebanon to a PLO-run training camp where they were taught to use military hardware. The camp was the Bir Hassan PLO camp near Beirut, Horn claimed. He said that while at the camp, Hoffmann planned a series of attacks in West Germany and that he also wanted to "impress the PLO leadership." The PLO denies it has any links to the Hoffmann or his neo-Nazi group.