The Cabinet sat as a “ministerial committee on defense” today to hear reports from Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon. No information was forthcoming from the meeting as it is a violation of Israeli law to report or to speculate on such proceedings. It was reported earlier that Mr. Eban was to give the Cabinet his evaluation of President Johnson’s speech before the triennial convention of B’nai B’rith in Washington last week. Gen. Allon. it was said, would report on his meeting last week with President Johnson.
Earlier the Cabinet announced its approval of Foreign Minister Eban’s forthcoming trip to New York to attend the Fall session of the United Nations General Assembly which opens Sept. 24. Mr. Eban is also scheduled to meet with French Cabinet members in Paris and to preside at a meeting of Israeli Ambassadors in Latin America. It was reported that he would stop off in Rome for a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister. The Cabinet also approved a visit by Transport Minister Moshe Carmel to Ghana in mid-October at the invitation of the Ghanaian Transport Minister. He may visit other African countries.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman had no comment today on a newspaper report that the United States had protested to Israel over the expulsion of four prominent West Bank Arabs to Jordan. Expulsion orders for three men and one woman charged with subversive activities were signed by Defense Minister Gen. Moshe Dayan and the Military Governor and carried out about 10 days ago.
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