The decision of the United Nations Security Council Friday to recommend admittance of Israel into the U.N. was acclaimed this weekend by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok.
The decision, he said, was particularly gratifying because such a large majority passed it, including the United States, Russia, France, China, two Latin American republics and Norway and Canada. That Britain could not bring itself to vote “but abstained, he said, showed how hard certain prejudices die, but this was something the state of Israel would have to take in its stride. “It is a fair assumption,” Shertok added, “that the decision of the Security Council assures our admission at the forthcoming session of the U.N. General Assembly.”
Although the U.N. Conciliation Commission for Palestine is not in session because its various members are touring different parts of Palestine, its sub-commission on the future of Jerusalem is still meeting here. Yesterday the sub-commission held two meetings. Although it was expected that it would meet with Arab and Jewish representatives soon, the Israeli Foreign Office has not yet named liaison men to meet with the sub-commission, although Transjordan has.
The exchange of Egyptian and Israeli prisoners of war, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Is expected to last three or four days, it was learned here today. The procedure for the exchange was decided upon yesterday at a meeting of the mixed armistice commission at Auja. Meanwhile, several hundred Arab civilians who remained behind in Faluja when the Egyptian Army evacuated the town today left for Hebron. They could not leave earlier because Transjordan was late in giving them permission to cross the Arab Legion’s lines to the city. This leaves only several hundred Arabs ### in Faluja who have elected to remain as citizens of Israel.
(Reuters reported today from Aden that the first group of some 860 Yemenite Jews of military age given permission to emigrate from a refugee camp here to Israel, were today flown to the Jewish state. The report added that the British authorities in Aden have asked Yemen to halt the flow of Yemenite Jewish refugees to Aden from which they hope to reach Israel. They are reported to be arriving in Aden at the rate of 100 a month.)
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