Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who has been at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital for a week, recovering from exhaustion, is now well enough to resume his effort to form Israel’s new coalition Government, his physicians announced here today.
Beginning tomorrow, the doctors said, Mr. Eshkol will be permitted again to participate in the talks toward formation of the new coalition Cabinet which will succeed the present caretaker Government. Until now, Mr. Eshkol has been forbidden to receive visitors. However, the physicians said, they are not yet ready to fix the date for Mr. Eshkol’s release from the hospital.
Political circles reported here today that “important progress” has been made toward persuading the National Religious Party to join the next coalition Government. The advances, these circles indicated, were achieved through “considerable concessions” to the demands of the religious group, particularly in regard to education and a Sabbath observance law.
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