An Israeli scouts delegation to the world scouts jamboree’s youth forum, which just ended in Lillehammer, Norway, defeated an Arab motion to co-opt the PLO’s “Palestine scouts” movement into the world scout movement. This was reported to the JTA by the seven-man delegation led by Benyamin Yogev during their short stopover in London en route for home. They were warmly received by scouts of most of the 94 participating countries. They regretted the unremitting hostility of 13 Arab scout delegations, with occasional exception of the Tunisians.
One of the Israeli scouts, Danny Kochav, 17, of Haifa was elected secretary of the English-speaking group at the youth forum representing 17,000 scouts at the jamboree. The majority overruled Arab attempts to disqualify the Israeli’s election. Special victims of the Arab hostility were the two Israeli-Arab scouts–Majid Attalah, a Catholic, and Hassan Salaima, a Moslem, both of Nazareth. This demonstration of Jewish-Arab coexistence made a good impression on the scouts, Yogev reported.
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