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fpung International of 1978, gives a piece of apple pie to Miss Israel, RonitBeii-Basat, at a reception in Tokyo. Miss Ben-Basat was one of 41 girls taking part in the Miss Yoiang International, beauty contest. JCNS.
Ouster of television head sparks emploves' revolt
JERUSALEM — The managing committee of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (!BA) voted 4-2 not to renew the term of Amon Zuckermann, director of national television.
His ouster, however, has sparked a revolt by television employes who charged that Zuckermann was not removed for professional reasons but because lie refused to follow the Likud party line in the performance of his duties.
Four coalition representatives on the managing committee voted a-gainst Zukermann; two oif the Labor Alignment voted in his favor and another, representing Likud's Liberal Party wing, abstained.
While the committee was deliberating, several hundred television employes marched outside of IDA headquarters chanting **independent television" and **free State, free
television.'*
They accused Likud of politicizing the Broadcasting Authority, an independent quasi-governmental agency.
Prof. Reuven Yaron, the Likud appointee who heads the IBA, said in an interview that he would quit if Zuckermann was approved for another term. He said the management committee was acting in accordance with the broadcast law and that IBA employes had'^no right to dictate its decisions.
Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, a leader of the National Religious Party, has demanded on several <)ccasions that Zuckermann be replaced.
YosefLapid, another Likud appointee who is director-general of the IBA, is expected to take over Zuckermann's job until a new TV director is named.
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JERUSALEM — Rabbi Dab! Maatuk; a member of Tel Aviv rabbinical committee, left for Egypt to help Egyptian Jews set up a new kosher system. Maatuk, who served until 20 years ago as the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria, went on his 'mission to Egypt at the initiative of ' the religious services bureku of the World Zionist Organization and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia. Yosef.
Maatuk will stay in Egypt two months. He will look into the condition, of the synagogues, the Jewish cemeteries, and the community institutions in various cities, particularly in Cairo and Alexandria. He took with him a number of ritual articles as^ts for the Egyptian Jewish community.
JERUSALEM — Deputy Premier YigaelYadin rejected a decision by the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) not to hold the Eurovision song contest in Israel next year.
The IBA board of directors earlier decided no^ to hold the contest on the grounds that television must devote all its resources to preparations for the age brcolor. Israel is the only country in this part of the Mideast which still broadcasts in black-and-white.
"Phe Eurovision song contest Was held this year in Jerusalem and wasa declared success, by the actual production — and by Israelwinning th^ first pnze,> which entitled the winning country to host the contest once again.
But Yosef Lapid, IBA director-general, argued that in its present
state, TV could riot both switch over to color and undertake another Eurovision special without causing harm to programming. "Television has not yet recovered from this year's contest," Lapid said.
According to IBA, the Eurovision budget would have amounted to IL 20 million.
But Yadin sent a cable to Education Minister- Zevulun Hammer, who is in charge of implementing the IBA law^ and declared that the government and not the IBA should take the decision of this sort.
The mto argument in favor of holding the contest here is the opportunity for iritemational exposure.
In a reaction. Prof. Reuven Yaron, chairman of the IBA, said it was fully withiri the IBA's competence to make such a decision.
Egypt returns Torab
JERUSALEM — In a surprise gesture, Egyptians returned to Israel a Torah scroll captured when an Israeli strongpoint in Barlev defence line opposite Port Suez fell after valiant resistance in 1973 Yom Kippui* War.
The Torah scroll had been proudly carried out of the defence position by an Israeli soldier at the head of agroup of comrades ordered to surrender after holding put for several days against attacks of the Egyptian army^
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