Pinhas Sapir, touring the Latin American countries in his new capacity as chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, stopped here this week-end for meetings with Zionist organizations, the Central Jewish Committee, and prominent community leaders. He underlined the importance of aliya and Jewish education in his talks here. Sapir was given a memorandum drawn up by the Zionist Federation, representing a majority of the parties represented in that body, urging him to intervene in favor of a national unity government in Israel.
At one of the meetings which Sapir addressed, it was announced that Senator Martin Luis Guzman, a prominent intellectual, writer and editor, had been named last June the recipient of the Latin American human rights prize for 1974 at the ninth plenary session of the Latin American Jewish Congress. Guzman, a former chairman of the Mexican-Israel Cultural Institute and chairman of the Committee for Free Books for Educational Purposes, will receive the award at a ceremony Dec. 10.
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