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...Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after the 1967 canal closing. Nonetheless Foreign Minister Yigal Allon conveyed "heartfelt and most sincere wishes to Egypt that the canal will indeed bear the hoped-for economic fruit." In his speech to the Knesset, Allon emphasized, however, that Israel expected its cargoes to move through too in accordance with the January 1974 disengagement agreement. Although Cairo has hinted that...
Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was in New York City; so was Chaim Herzog, Israel's Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had been in the U.S. and gone already, as had his predecessor Abba Eban and Itzhak Navon, chairman of the Knesset's committee on foreign affairs and security. Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and Minister of Justice Haim Zadok flew in at week's end, while Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, and Supreme Court Justice Haim Conn were packing their bags. Small wonder if Premier Yitzhak Rabin felt lonely in Jerusalem...
...ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter-the world...
...Concessions. Thus Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government last week decided to demonstrate some diplomatic initiative of its own. From Jerusalem came reports that the government was considering new Sinai concessions in order to resume the Kissinger talks. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, bound for the U.S. to make some fund-raising appearances, persuaded Kissinger to receive him in Washington in order to emphasize Israel's willingness to continue negotiations...
...Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dinitz, subtle and clearheaded, is fully aware of the current concerns of American Jews. "There is more talk of a second Munich in the United States than in Israel," he observes. "As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon has said, Ford is not a Chamberlain, Sadat is not a Hitler, and Israel is not a Czechoslovakia. But great apprehension exists...