Premier Menachem Begin rejected today a request that the Knesset discuss the need for him to appoint an advisor on intelligence. The Agranat Committee in its report on the 1973 Yom Kippur War recommended that the Premier have such an advisor.
Labor Alignment MK Michael Bar-Zohar introduced a motion for a Knesset discussion. He said there was a feeling among the public that Begin was not functioning properly because of his sorrow over the death of his wife, Aliza, last November, and the death of Deputy Premier Simcha Ehrlich last week. He said that in addition the ongoing problem of Lebanon was perhaps making the burden of the office too heavy for Begin.
The Premier ignored Bar-Zohar’s personal comments, saying that the authority to appoint an intelligence advisor was his alone and was not a subject for the Knesset to discuss.
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