The Socialist International is to hold an executive meeting in Israel on June 12, just 18 days before the Israeli elections. Word of the meeting emerged here this evening. It followed extensive unpublished contacts between Israel’s Labor Party and the Socialist International leadership under former German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
Among those expected to attend the executive session will be Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who has never before visited Israel, Brandt himself, and other top European government and opposition figures, including French Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand.
Political observers in Israel immediately interpreted the socialist international’s scheduling of the first-ever session in Israel as a deliberate effort to help Israel’s Labor Party in the election campaign.
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