Visiting Knesset Members Deplore Israel’s Attacks on South Africa

Two members of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, who arrived here last week on a goodwill visit, have deplored Israel’s attacks on South Africa in the United Nations and said they would form an Israel-South Africa Friendship League to work for a change in Israel’s attitude. The MKs are Shmuel Tamir and Eliezer Shostak of the Free Center Party. The Free Center consists of three members who broke away from the rightist Herut Party. They told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that South Africa had shown friendship and given valuable assistance to Israel from the time that Gen. Jan Christian Smuts helped secure the Balfour Declaration. They noted that former Prime Minister Dr. Daniel Malan had been the first foreign Chief of State to visit Israel and that the present Prime Minister, John Vorster, had permitted aid to flow from South Africa to Israel during last June’s Six-Day War. But instead of reciprocating such friendship, Israel has attacked South Africa in the UN, they said.