A Ministerial economic committee decided today to accept a long-standing offer by Bulgaria to pay compensation of $8, 300 for each victim of a Bulgarian attack on an El Al plane in 1955 in which all 58 persons aboard were killed. The payments would be made to relatives of the victims.
Israel originally demanded a total payment of $2, 600, 000 including compensation for loss of the El Al Constellation plane. When Bulgaria rejected the claim, Israel took the case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. That court ruled it had no jurisdiction.
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