Members of four university student associations staged a mass demonstration here tonight in the continuing protests against Israel’s diplomatic ties with West Germany.
The students were from Tel Aviv University, Bar-Han University, the Technion of Haifa, and the Tel Aviv Branch of the Hebrew University. They aimed their demonstration against the appointment of Dr. Rolf Pauls as Bonn’s first Ambassador to Israel and Dr. Alexander Toeroek as counsellor to the West German Embassy here.
Several thousand demonstrators marched silently through Tel Aviv’s main streets during the weekend in a demonstration organized by the right-wing Herut. A banner carried by the demonstrators read: “Germany Sends Diplomats to Israel–And Missiles to Egypt.” Another read: “Normal Relations with Murderers–Sin Against History.”
At the end of the march, Herut leader Menachim Beigin told the demonstrators: “Pauls swore eternal allegiance to Hitler. In the name of thousands of Jews, let me say that Pauls is unwelcome here.” His statement was loudly applauded. A former partisan, Haim Lazer, told the crowd: “The least we can do now is to make Germans living among us feel they are living in a ghetto.” A Committee of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors planned to distribute leaflets against the relations with West Germany in major urban centers.
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