Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion replied tonight in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, with an emphatic affirmative to a question from a right-wing Herut deputy as to whether Israel was continuing to supply West Germany with arms. The Prime Minister did not elaborate on his brief reply.
Mr. Ben-Gurion also reiterated today in the Knesset his conviction that there was no national, social or economic need for increasing the present size of Israel’s cities other than Jerusalem. He cited the basic policy of the first Israel Government in 1949 advocating the spread and balancing of populations to prevent over-concentration in cities.
That policy, he said, also was based on the belief that there were political as well as security dangers in concentrating the populace in the narrow coastal strip between Haifa and Tel Aviv.
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