A special session of Parliament, demanded by three opposition parties to discuss the controversy over work by West German scientists on advanced weapons systems in Egypt, probably will be held on Thursday, informed sources here reported today. The session will be a closed one.
A request for such a special meeting was forwarded today to the Knesset office in Tel Aviv with more than the required 30 signatures from members of the three parties–Herut, Mapam and the Liberals. The Knesset Presidium was slated to meet tonight to fix the date.
Press reports indicated that the Liberals and Mapam have been insisting that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion did not give adequate explanations to the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee about the West German scientific participation in Egypt’s armament program and the forced resignation of Israel’s Security Services under the Prime Minister’s pressure. It was also indicated that the opposition parties hoped the Prime Minister would give more details at the special Knesset session.
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