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...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: some days it seemed that there were more Israeli VIPS in the U.S. than in Israel...
...Zadok also told the 75 member audience at the Science Center that he feels "the time has come" for Israel to adopt a constitution...
Parliament is now accelerating its legislation of "basic laws," and is presently considering legislation similar to the American Bill of Rights, Zadok said...
...adoption of a constitution would be delayed if the constitution had to "answer all the possible questions" confronting Israel society, Zadok said...
...would rather have a constitution which will answer 95 per cent of the questions and have it earlier, than wait because there is still controversy on the remaining five per cent," Zadok said...