Arieh Ben-Eliezer, Herut member of the Israeli parliament, and his wife were admitted yesterday to the United States for 30 days after a hearing before immigration authorities. The State Department granted a waiver of visitors’ visas for the couple. Upon their arrival Sunday at Idlewild Airport without visas, they were taken to Ellis Island but were released later that day.
At a press conference today Mr. Ben-Elizer said that his party wants peaceful relations with all Arab countries but not with Transjordan since it does not consider those Arabs who live in Transjordan an Arab nation. His party is also not in accord with the official policy of the Israel Government in regard to compensating Arabs who left the territory of Israel in 1948, he declared. He appealed for American military and economic aid to Israel.
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