A team of Israeli experts will leave here for Bonn tomorrow to participate in the West German capital in talks on economic aid to Israel, to be opened Wednesday by Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Asher Ben-Nathan. The team will include Yaacov Arnon, director-general of Israel’s Treasury; Arye Manor, formerly a member of Israel’s mission to Washington, now a top member of the staff of Bank Leumi; and a ranking member of the Foreign Ministry’s West European desk. The German team will be headed by Dr. Rolf Lahr, Secretary of State in the Bonn Foreign Office.
The talks this week will constitute the first phase of a series of three scheduled sessions between the Israelis and the West Germans. Each side will merely spell out its positions in the opening talks, to last four days. Next month, the two groups will meet again, each to clarify its separate positions. Final hard bargaining, when concrete details will take form and decisions will be made, is scheduled for next summer.
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