Zeev V. Zeltner, relieving president of the Israel district court at Tel Aviv, was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission here today to membership on the Commission’s 14-member Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. He succeeds one of the Arab members of the Subcommission, Mohammed Awad, of Egypt, whose term has expired.
In the voting on Judge Zeltner’s candidacy, 14 of the Human Rights Commission’s 21 members voted for the Israeli. The balloting was secret but it was held quite certain that the Communist and Arab blocs in the full commission had cast their votes against Judge Zeltner.
Israel also holds membership on the full commission, its delegation chief being Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn. It was pointed out here that it is rare for a small country like Israel to hold memberships on both the full Commission and on the very important Subcommission. The Commission itself also has an American Jew as one of its members. He is Morris B. Abram, president of the American Jewish Committee, formerly a member of the sub-group.
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