The Board of Directors of the Zionist Review dismissed Jon Kimche this weekend as editor of the Jewish Observer and Middle East Review as the culmination of a dispute in which Mr. Kimche accused the Zionist Federation of Britain of censorship of material in the Observer. The Zionist Federation is the principal stockholder in the Zionist Review, publisher of the Observer. The dismissal was contained in a lengthy letter to Mr. Kimche which was released in its entirety.
The letter denied that the dispute with Mr. Kimche emanated from an intervention last week by Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who was reported objecting to an article published in the Observer against Israel’s Minister of Justice Yaacov Shapiro. It charged Mr. Kimche with ignoring instructions from the editorial committee not to print an article on unemployment in Israel, which the committee considered “misleading, ” whereupon the printers were ordered not to print that issue, and Mr. Kimche was charged with repeated violations of an agreement of his duties as editor.
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