Egypt will not participate in the 10th International Book Fair to be held here April 6-9, Mayor Teddy Kollek reported yesterday. He said invitations were not sent to the Cairo government or to private publishers in Egypt after Egyptian authorities indicated, in the course of informal negotiations, that “the time was not ripe.”
Israel was a participant in the international book fair held in Cairo last January and in the international trade fair in the Egyptian capital last week. They were the first such events in Egypt at which Israel was present.
The Jerusalem Book Fair is the second largest after the Frankfurt fair. About 46 countries will participate this year, including several which have no diplomatic relations with Israel. There will be 1200 stands of which Israeli publishers will occupy 120. In all, 350 publishers world-wide will display their wares. The fair cost $330,000 to mount.
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