Three Labor Alignment Knesset members left today for Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet Peace Committee. They are Ora Namir and Rabbi Menachem Hacohen (Labor) and Chaika Grossman (Mapam). They are joined by two Hadash (Communist) leaders, David Hinin and Salam Jubran.
In their cable accepting the Peace Committee’s invitation, they wrote: “We believe the invitation, the visit, and meetings with representatives of the Soviet public will encourage the efforts of peace-seekers in Israel towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and towards an improvement of relations between Israel and Soviet Union and their advancement towards normalization.”
The delegation is to stay in the USSR for 10 days. Meetings have been scheduled with representatives of the Peace Committee and of other public groups, but none — as yet — with Soviet government officials.
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