Mrs. Golda Meir, who resigned recently as Foreign Minister after many years in that post, was understood today to have consented to become secretary general of the Mapai Party. She was expected to give her formal consent to the appointment at a meeting of the Mapai appointments committee in Jerusalem.
Moshe Kol, Minister of Development and Tourism, agreed today to continue temporarily as head of the Youth Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency, a post he relinquished when he was named to the Cabinet. Mr. Kol, who is not a member of the newly elected Jewish Agency executive was asked by Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of the executive, to stay on as head of Youth Aliyah until his successor was named.
The Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, today was informed that Binyamin Shahor of the National Religious Party had been appointed Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs and that he has already taken up his new post. When Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s new coalition Cabinet was presented to the Knesset two weeks ago, Religious Affairs Minister Zorah Warhaftig announced that he reserved the right to appoint a Deputy.
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