Louis Billig, acting-head of the Oriental Institute of the Hebrew University, resigned today from the Brith Shalom Society as a protest against the recent publication by the Society of a questionnaire to all candidates for the Asefat Hanivcharim, the Jewish National Elected Assembly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns.
Billig considers the questionnaire political action while the Society should only recommend such action to the property authorities, he believes. Other resignations are expected to follow. The questionnaire of the Society, which has been actively propagating measures for peace with the Arabs, asked the various candidates for their stand on the Society’s program.
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