Minister of Interior Israel Rokach today suspended the Israel Communist newspaper Kol Haam for ten days for two violations of the regulations governing newspapers.
The Ministry said that an editorial on Kol Haam’s frontpage on January 23 charging that American intelligence agents were appealing to unemployed Israeli veterans to fight in Korea was a false report which might cause panic. It also ruled that a translation of an editorial from the Soviet newspaper Pravda charging nine doctors, most of them Jews, with murdering Soviet leaders, had “endangered public security.”
The Mapam extremist faction recently organized by Dr. Moshe Sneh and his associates, anticipating expulsion from the Mapam Party, today set itself up as a new party in Tel Aviv. The 200-member group will be known as the Socialist Workers Party. Dr. Sneh is expected to ask the Knesset to recognize himself and two other leaders of the group who hold seats in Parliament as representatives of the new party.
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