Knesseter Yitzhak Navon will not present his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Navon further said he will not seek to be a member of the Jewish Agency Executive. He did not elaborate on the reasons for his decision, but said he reached it after “considerable thought.”
Navon disclosed his decision to the Secretariat of the Labor Zionist Movement in a meeting attended by Mrs. Golda Meir and Labor chairman Shimon Peres. The participants reportedly asked Navon not to publicize his decision, hoping he would change his mind, or alternatively allow the party to find an alternate candidate. Labor will now have to find a candidate to match the tough competition of the Likud candidate, Jewish Agency treasurer Leon Dulzin.
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