West Germany’s former chancellor. Dr. Konrad Adenauer, arrived in Israel tonight for an eight-day visit, as the guest of the Government and the Weizmann Institute of Science, which will confer an honorary fellowship on him tomorrow. He was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Abba Eban, representing the Government; Meyer Weisgal, chairman of the Weizmann Institute board of governors; Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization; Felix Shinnar, head of Israel’s former purchasing mission in West Germany; and Dr. Rolf Pauls, West German Ambassador to Israel.
Tomorrow, Dr. Adenauer is scheduled to lay a wreath at Rehovoth at the tomb marking the burial place of the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Following the convocation at which he will receive the honorary fellowship, which is to be addressed by Mr. Eban, Mr. Weisgal and Dr. Goldmann, he will proceed to Jerusalem.
Dr. Adenauer will meet tomorrow with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, will visit President Zalman Shazar, lay a wreath at the Yad Vashem, the Israel center for documentation on the Nazi holocaust, and be the guest of honor at a dinner to be tendered by Mr. Eshkol. Later, he will confer with Mr. Eban, visit Christian holy places in Israel, and pay a special visit to Sde Boker to see his old friend, ex Premier David Ben-Gurion,
Two of the political parties that are members of Israel’s government coalition, Mapam and Achdut Avodah, as well as Herut, are boycotting the Adenauer visit. Herut published in today’s newspapers a manifesto declaring that Dr. Adenauer is “unwelcome” in Israel. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed today by the Ghetto Fighters Association, protesting the visit and inviting Dr. Adenauer to “leave Israel together with Wehrmacht Officer Pauls and former Nazi Toeroek.” The latter name refers to Dr. Alexander Toeroek, the West German embassy’s top counselor in Israel.
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