Close to two million Israelis will have the right to vote in the Oct. 30 elections for the eighth Knesset–about 250,000 more than the previous election year in 1969, according to Haim Cohen. Supreme Court Judge, chairing the Central Knesset Elections Committee. Cohen said he hoped that this election would be conducted efficiently and in accordance with all legal and moral proprieties. Introducing himself and his committee to the press in the Knesset building, he said: “The elections committee cannot ensure that the poll is clean without the aid of the public opinion and the backing of wide sectors of the electorate.”
Committee secretary Menahem Terlo said the country would be divided this year into 16 electoral districts–instead of 14 as in 1969. This is because this year Tel Aviv is carved up into three voting districts. –Some -4000 polling stations will operate throughout the country. The budget for this election is some IL 7 million, compared to IL 5.5 million in the last elections.
The West German East-West Cultural Society, an organization of German exile intellectuals, will award its “Ring of Humanity” this year to the German-Jewish author, Max Tau, 76. now residing in Oslo. The presentation will be made in Bonn in Nov. for his service to “humanitarian culture.”
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