Tomorrow’s special Knesset session which was to hear Premier Golda Meir’s report on her visit to Washington has been postponed until Monday, it was announced tonight. Mrs. Meir met with Likud opposition leaders Menachem Beigin and Elimelech Rimault today and persuaded them to agree to the postponement. The Premier is said to feel it is better to delay her report until after U.S. Secretary of State Henry A, Kissinger completed his current round of visits to Arab capitals. Kissinger was in Cairo today.
The Cabinet met in special session in Tel Aviv last night to hear a report by Premier Meir. A terse one sentence statement reported the meeting without elaborating. Observers here believe that reports emanating from Washington of continuing differences between the U.S. and Israel over cease-fire problems are more or less accurate. Mrs. Meir appears to have stood firm against U.S. proposals for further Israeli concessions on the encircled Egyptian Third Army before Egypt reciprocates by exchanging prisoners of war and lifting its blockade of the straits of Bab el Mandeb, sources here said.
However, the JTA learned that Israel is not closing the door on some sort of overall deal which would embrace all these problems simultaneously–though no satisfactory idea seems to have been proposed so far. Kissinger’s talks in. Cairo tonight and tomorrow are viewed here as especially important.
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