Israel Cabinet Decides Not to Advance Proposals at U.N. General Assembly

The Israeli Cabinet decided early this morning, after nearly a day of continuous sessions, that Israel will not advance any proposals for settlement of the Arab-Israeli situation at the present emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly.

While some members of the Cabinet were of the belief that Israel should submit proposals for a settlement to the Assembly, the concensus, arrived at during a session which adjourned shortly before midnight, was that it was the turn of the Arabs to talk. The majority viewpoint, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned, was that all Israel should do in the U.N. is to explain that it had been pushed into war and to reiterate that Israel would never return to the conditions prevailing before June 5.

The Cabinet also decided that all Christian holy places in Jerusalem will be open to all Christians on Sundays and that Moslem shrines would be open to all Moslems every Friday, the Moslem Sabbath. Residents of the Old City of Jerusalem, however, can visit the holy places any weekday. Under the Jordanian rule, only Jordanians were permitted to visit the holy places. Moslems from Israel were even barred from the Mosque of Omar and Christians were permitted to enter the city only once a year.

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan reported to the Cabinet session that curfew and other restrictions on the inhabitants of the West Bank areas liberated from Jordanian rule would be shortened or lifted entirely in the next few days. Gen. Dayan told the Cabinet that the mayors and civil servants of the areas had expressed a willingness to cooperate. Most of the municipal services have already been resumed in the occupied areas west of the Jordan.