— Former Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin is cutting short his current visit to the United States, apparently because of the government crisis in Israel. Rabin, on a speaking tour on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, said here that he is returning to Israel tonight.
“My vote might be missed” in the Knesset, he told an audience attending the foreign policy symposium of the Anti-Deformation League of B’nai B’rith. “I’m the only member of the Knesset who is out of the country.” The Knesset is expected to vote this week on a motion to dissolve itself and set a date for early elections. Asked by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency if he had met with officials of either the Carter Administration or the incoming Reagan Administration, Rabin, a leader of the opposition Labor Party in Israel, replied, “I didn’t come here to negotiate.”
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