A purge is taking place in the Israeli Communist Party, the evening newspaper Yedioth Achronoth reported last night. The newspaper said that in advance of the forthcoming national conference of the party many members who came from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have been expelled on charges of “Titoism.”
The newspaper reports that the purge has even been extended to Esther Wilenska, a leading Communist and the party’s representative on the Tel Aviv municipal council and on the Histadrut executive. It said that she has been removed from her official posts, but that the explanation given publicly is that she is inactive for “private reasons.”
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