Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist Organization, characterized as “absolute nonsense and made out of whole cloth” a report in today’s edition of Maariv that Israel scuttled a meeting between her and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. According to Maariv, another participant in the so-called meeting was to have been Rabbi Alexander Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Schindler is out of the country and not available for comment.
The Maariv story claimed that Sadat twice consented in recent months to meet with senior American Jewish leaders in Cairo after it had been arranged by Austria’s Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. The paper, which quoted-American Jewish sources, said Kreisky first obtained Israel’s agreement to the meeting but later Israel reversed its stand. Political circles in Jerusalem had no comment on Maariv’s story.
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