Brigadier Yosef Avidar, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, is expected here to be named soon as Israel’s Ambassador to Argentina. Brig. Avidar is now director-general of the Ministry of Labor, but is expected to resign that post to take the Buenos Aires ambassadorship after the Jewish High Holy Days,
Argentina had asked for the recall of the former ambassador, Arich Levavi, who was brought back from Buenos Aires as a result of the dispute centering on Argentina’s displeasure with the abduction of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi specialist in mass murder of Jews,
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