Former Premier David Ben-Gurion, now an opposition deputy in Israel’s Parliament, heckled his chosen successor, Premier Levi Eshkol, today for the first time during Parliamentary debate. The Premier replied tartly, touching off a shouting match by deputies of the Israel Workers Party (Rafi), the dissident group formed by Mr. Ben-Gurion.
The subject of the debate was the site of this year’s Independence Day parade which the Government has decided will be Haifa. In earlier years, when it was held in Jerusalem, it evoked complaints from Jordan that a parade so near Jordan was provocative. Mr. Ben-Gurion heckled the Premier loudly, interrupting the Premier’s statement and declaring loudly “What you say, sir, is untrue,” The Premier referred to his critic as “this gentleman.” Rafi deputies thereupon interrupted the Premier with shouts that “he has a name.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
