The two main tasks which Israel must accomplish before she can build up the prosperity of her economy are the achievement of military security and the continuance of Jewish immigration, Premier David Ben Gurion of Israel declared in an exclusive interview published today in the influential Paris daily Le Figaro.
The newspaper is publishing a series of interviews with world political leaders and yesterday carried comments by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, who attacked Israel and the Jews in general.
Mr. Ben Gurion paid homage to France’s humanitarian spirit, asserting that the people of France “are probably the most humane in the world.” The Premier, who called Israel’s close ties with France a “matter of ethics more than of interest,” expressed the view that France would solve the Algerian question by itself.
The Premier also expressed thanks for the aid furnished Israel by American Jews both at the establishment of the state and in its subsequent strengthening. He stressed that the State of Israel was a center for the Jews of the world.
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