Four Israelis took part today as individuals in the first Conference on African Economic Development Plans and Roads to Socialism.
The conference was sponsored by Giorgio Lapira, Mayor of Florence, Italy, and Leopold Senghor, president of the Senegal Republic. Those attending included official delegations from 19 African countries and individual participants from the United States, Italy, France, West Germany and Britain. The only Arab delegation present was that of Tunisia.
The Israelis were Mark Jarblum of the International Department of the Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation; Professor Jehoshua Prawer of Hebrew University; Akiva Eger, director of the Afro-Asian Institute Trade Union Cooperative Government Studies, who came as a member of the Cameroun delegation.
Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, canceled his trip here at the last minute after deciding to visit the United States where he will address the national conference of the United Jewish Appeal this weekend.
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