Deputy Prime Minister Abba Eban today praised in Israel’s Parliament a bill before the United States Senate submitted by Sen. Harrison Williams, New Jersey Democrat, which would prohibit the giving of information to bodies conducting a boycott against a country maintaining friendly relations with the United States.
Replying in the Knesset to a Herut motion on the inadequacy of the Government policy with regard to the Arab boycott, Mr. Eban announced that Israeli importers will receive a list of foreign companies which have yielded to the Arab boycott. He said that any transactions with such firms will need the Government’s prior confirmation.
Declaring that the Israel Government will intensify its anti-boycott activity, Mr. Eban said that Israel was “not powerless,” noting that the country’s imports equaled one-third of the total imports of all the Arab states and there were many products where Israeli imports exceeded those of the Arabs. He also told the Knesset that many governments have openly expressed their opposition to the activities of the Arab boycott office, some even advising firms in their countries to resist such Arab pressures.
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