About 200 editors from 27 countries convened here yesterday for the 22nd annual assembly of the International Press Institute and their focus will be on freedom of the press generally and specifically in Israel. Dr. Ernest Meyer, director general of the IPI, disclosed at a pre-assembly press conference today that the delegates will examine the case of two East Jerusalem Arab journalists–Joe Nasser and Jami Hamad–who were arrested several weeks ago for publishing a story without submitting it to prior censorship. Both have since been released.
Their story, published in an East Jerusalem Arabic weekly, claimed that Jordanian intelligence had collaborated with Israel in the Feb. 21 commando raid on terrorist headquarters in Beirut. Meyer said the IPI sought to uphold press freedom everywhere and intervened whenever it was violated. It recently organized a world-wide protest in the case of a Chinese journalist. Yuyttung, who was arrested in the Philippines and who will speak at the assembly here.
Lt. Col. Menahem Ammosi, a 40-year-old career Army officer who came to Israel from Yemen in 1949 in "Operation Magic Carpet" has been appointed military commander of Jenin in the Samaria district of the West Bank. His promotion sparked a celebration at his home village of Rosh Ha’Ayin, an immigrant township inhabited mainly by Yemenite Jews. Col. Ammosi, who is married and the father of three children, arrived in Israel as an orphan with his younger brother.
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