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...Israeli Premier's troubles with the Pope were not of her making-nor, for that matter, of his. The day before she was ushered through the Vatican's Gate of Bells and into the papal library. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon undiplomatically told a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that Mrs. Meir was responding to an "official invitation." Mrs. Meir later emphasized that Israel had asked for the audience only after the Vatican had made it clear that the request would be answered favorably. "I didn't barge into the Vatican," she declared angrily...
Protest. Kenan protested the censor's decision to Israel's highest court and lost. So far, his only support within the government has come from Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who in his capacity as Minister of Education and Culture had underwritten $1,400 of the revue's production costs. Allon has moved that the censorship laws applying to the theater, which were written during the years of the British Mandate, be repealed. His proposal is on the agenda for Cabinet action, but government watchers predict that if any decision is taken, it will be to keep...
...week or so ago, when she bluntly told several confidants in the Labor Party that she really is going to step down. One result of this decision has been the intensification of the feud between two of her potential successors: Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 57, and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon...
...Israel a crowd of 3,000 met the pine coffins of the victims as they arrived at Lod airport aboard a special El Al plane.* Israelis traditionally bury their dead in shrouds, but these were too burned and broken. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon presided in place of Golda Meir. For the Premier, who is 74, the tragedy was compounded by the death of her older sister, Sheineh Korngold, 83, who emigrated from Milwaukee to Israel with her 51 years...
...elite of our sportsmen have died and the Olympic spirit died with them." So said Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon last week as his countrymen buried their dead of Munich. The nation's Olympic hopes had never been especially high; Israel has no professional sports and only mediocre amateur games. Nonetheless, the men who died last week represented their country's best hope of improving that record. As Shmuel Larkin, head of the Israeli delegation to Munich, put it: "This crime has thrown Israeli sport back ten years." The victims...