President Yitzhak Navon has called on Jews here and abroad to make every effort to influence West Germany against allowing the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes to take effect Jan. 1, 1980. He proposed that Jews the world over wear yellow Stars of David on April 24 — the day marked in Israel as Holocaust Day.
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