Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem today invited the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith to send “a private mission of highly respected American leaders, representing the three faiths, to study and report objectively on the physical and spiritual development of Jerusalem as a unified city.” Addressing a luncheon session at the 58th annual meeting of the ADL meeting here through Nov. 24, Kollek said that “Jerusalem is open for all to come and see what we have done to safeguard the religious rights of Christians and Moslems, their holy places and the aesthetic, spiritual and historical character of the Holy City.”
Kollek’s invitation came on the heels of Israel’s rejection Nov. 17 of a UN Security Council resolution of Sept. 25 which called upon UN Secretary General U Thant to send a UN sponsored mission to check on housing and population policies of Jerusalem’s Arab sector. The mission was to have consisted of representatives from Argentina, Italy and Sierra Leone. Premier Golda Meir said in the Knesset on Oct. 26 that Israel would not “enter into discussions of any political factor on the basis of this resolution.”
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