Municipal elections were held without incident today in 12 towns and villages in the Judaea region of the West Bank. By the time the polls closed tonight, nearly 87 percent of the eligible voters had cast ballots, 12 percent more than in the last elections held there under Jordanian rule in 1963. Some 190 candidates competed for fewer than 100 seats on village and town councils.
There was no competition in Hebron where incumbent Mayor Sheikh Mohammed Ali Jaabari and his nine councilmen were unopposed and thus automatically re-elected. Today’s voting marked the second stage of the first West Bank elections held under Israeli auspices. The elections were conducted according to Jordanian law. Ten towns in the Samaria region elected new councilmen on March 28 when more than 90 percent of the eligible voters turned out.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York will sponsor a series of lectures on the Holocaust and Jewish cultural subjects May 7-10.
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