New York City’s Commissioner of Social Service Mitchell I. Ginsberg has announced that he is unable to accept an invitation to go to Jerusalem to help reorganize the social welfare department in Israel’s capital. Declaring he was “not happy” about the decision, he said he does not have the time for such an undertaking. Last week. Mayor Lindsay appointed him to one of the city administration’s topmost jobs, as Human Resources Administrator.
Mr. Ginsberg was invited to Jerusalem last June by Jerusalem’s Mayor Teddy Kollek, and Mayor Lindsay approved his acceptance of the bid providing he stayed on long enough to help clear up a workers’ stoppage in the Department of Social Service. That dispute ended August 1. Last night, in informing Israel’s Consul-General Michael Arnon here of his decision not to go to Jerusalem now, Mr. Ginsberg said he hoped to go to Israel “some time in the future.”
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