Council head Dani Dayan charged that MDA had caved to a demand by the International Committee of the Red Cross in a 2005 agreement not to use the Red Star logo in regions beyond the pre-1967 border.

The 85-year-old Lewis has been the MDA's national chairman since the early 1950s. He announced in May that he was retiring as host of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon that has ...