Friday, July 11, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Agency to 'Streamline' Project
Renewal by Combining Departments
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Jewish Agency Assem-
bly has decided to combine
all units of the Jewish
Agency dealing with "Proj-
ect Renewal" into a single,
full-scale department
within the agency as a
means of resolving many of
the problems which have
bedeviled the massive slum
clearance and social re-
habilitation project which
Israel has undertaken in
rtnership with world
ry.
The plan, proposed by
Swiss millionaire Nissim
Gaon, head of the World
Sephardi Federation and
supported -by Leon Dulzin,
chairman of the Jewish
which have caused delay.
His proposal was
promptly and flatly re-
jected by Deputy Premier
Yigael Yadin who is the
top government official
The assembly also called in the sphere of social
for "streamlining and sim-
improvements and re-
plifying" the bureaucratic habilitation.
procedures involved in
An aide to Yadin said that
"Project Renewal." Obser-
the present arrangement
vers predicted intense whereby the Jewish Agency
rivalry over the chairman- and the various relevant
ship of the new department. government ministries
Earlier, Dulzin pro- cooperated under a roof
posed a separation of committee was "the best
powers between the gov- possible" and that Yadin,
ernment and the Jewish leader of the Democratic
Agency with respect to Movement in Premier
"Project Renewal" as a Menahem Begin's coalition
way to overcome the government, "would under
bureaucratic obstacles no circumstances" agree to
Agency and World Zionist
Organization Executives,
was adopted last Thursday,
the final day of the assem-
bly's annual session here.
Dulzin's plan.
The deputy premier'
expressed "surprise"
that Dulzin had not con-
sulted with him before
unveiling' his plan pub-
licly.
Dulzin, for his part,
stressed that world Jewry's
commitment to "Project Re-
newer! — a commitment
which, in practical terms,
calls for an expenditure of
$600 million over the next
five years — remains firm
and unshaken. He said
however that the project
could not, as had first been
thought, produce results
within five years. "It is a
task for this whole decade,"
he said.
LOSE 17-25 POUNDS
(Men Lose 28-35 Pounds)
Quickly, Safely,
Permanently
in just 6 weeks
No Shots
No Drugs
No Contracts
Individual
Daily Counseling
because it's harder to lose Weight alone .
Call Today
Southfield
642-5665
Cranhrook Cute
30233 Southfield Rd
SUITE 102
4%$ AT THE LOSIN G o
DAILY
DIET
COUNSELING
Troy
879-2222
Sunset Plaza
81 E. Log lake Rd.
• at Linnets
4AdOOW„,
':Ng
*WP
arm,, w
rin 0 ta2/21,129
MUIRWOOD SQUARE
Grand River and Drake
Farmington Hills
Another Unique Shopping Environment . . . Shops, Offices, Restaurants
By The Developers Of Applegate Square
Open Fall, 1980
Leasing Information: RON LICHT, 569-2580
;44441 iii;
15
ti ) itiiik
StlAY