Mayor Teddy Kollek has written a sharply critical letter to Premier Golda Meir upbraiding her and her ministers for once again disparaging Jerusalem’s status as the capital. He complained that David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, who visited Israel on his way back from Egypt over the weekend, met with Mrs. Meir and other top ministers in Tel Aviv.
Kollek noted that Rockefeller had said that the most extreme expressions he had heard during his travels through Arab lands, and especially from King Faisal, related to Jerusalem. “We are no doubt giving satisfaction to Israel’s enemies through the continuous affront to the status of Jerusalem on the part of the government and its ministers,” Kollek wrote. He himself received Rockefeller in the capital–but the banker went back to Tel Aviv for his meeting with the ministers.
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