Chip Carter and his wife, Caron, son and daughter-in-law of President Carter, were received by Premier Menachem Begin at his office here this morning. The Carters arrived in Israel yesterday at the head of a 425-member Friendship Force of Americans from the Hartford, Conn. area on a 10-day good will tour of Israel.
They were accompanied to the Premier’s office by U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis and by their official host, industrialist Shlomo Shamir, who is chairman of the Israeli branch of the Friendship Force. Talking to reporters afterwards, Carter, 27, said he and his wife had a long talk with Begin that covered almost every subject, including Jewish history, but skirted the current political situation. Begin reportedly expressed the wish, however, that the U.S. would transfer its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Friendship Force was conceived by President Carter before his election as a visitors’ exchange program between the U.S. and friendly foreign nations. Just before the Carters and their 425 American “Ambassadors” took off from Hartford, a similar group of Israeli citizens landed at the Connecticut state capital to begin a 10-day visit.
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