Israel considers charges printed yesterday in Izvestia, the Soviet Government’s official organ, accusing Israeli diplomats of “smuggling” Zionist propaganda into the USSR, as not only unfounded but slanderously false.
Israeli sources noted today that, each year, a short time before the High Holy Days, the Soviet propaganda machinery and press habitually find methods of attacking Israel. This is done, they pointed out, because, at this time of the year, more Russian Jews think of Israel and of Jerusalem. “It appears,” one knowledgeable source stated, “that this propaganda is stepped up each year before Rosh Hashana to try to counteract the increasingly warm Jewish sentiments among the Jews of the USSR.”
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