Premier David Ben Gurion left Hadassah Hospital today, two weeks after he entered it suffering from several minor wounds inflicted when a madman threw a hand grenade into the Knesset. Without any public announcement, the Premier limped out of the hospital entrance and into a waiting car which took him to his home.
At home he received Gen. Alfred Greunther, president of the American Red Cross, who was in Israel for today only on his way home from the recent international Red Cross conference in New Delhi, India.
The Premier’s departure leaves only one of the five wounded ministers still in the hospital. He is Moshe Shapira, Minister for Religious Affairs, who was the most several injured.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary committee investigating the bombing, completed its study today and is expected to file its report later tonight. The committee, which is understood to have found that security officers in the Knesset had not shown sufficient alertness, is expected to recommend that a much stricter check be made of the identity of all visitors to the Knesset.
Among the recommendations expected to come from the committee are: that security officers be given the right to search suspicious characters trying to enter the visitors gallery; that visitors be forbidden to take parcels or brief cases into the gallery, and that newspaper reading or note-taking in the gallery be banned.
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