Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Egyptian Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabian King Faisal are among the “100 Most Important People in the World,” according to a survey in the April issue of Esquire magazine. The list was based on four years of interviews with “hundreds of experts” by writer Donald Robinson, and includes “the people who, between 1965 and 1975, have had, or will have, the greatest impact” on world affairs. Other Jewish notables listed include artist Marc Chagall, author Saul Bellow, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, theologian Abraham J. Heschel, RCA president Robert Sarnoff, educator-philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin and psychiatrist Nathan S. Kline. The list also includes United Nations Secretary General U Thant and Chase Manhattan Bank president David Rockefeller, target of Jewish complaints over his Arab oil policies.
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