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His cartoons ac- companying the Hoffman articles were attacked as "anti-Zionist and anti-Israel" by Arye Dulzin, the Israeli executive chairman of the World Zionist Organization, and other Israeli leaders. The Is- raeli media treated the issue as a major story and even Prime Minister Shimon Peres became involved when he asked for copies of the booklet to study. The Jerusalem Post reported on Mon- day that the Prime Minister was considering stepping in as a peacemaker to solve the crisis, which -threatened to overshadow the agenda of the annual Assem- bly. The 30,000-word series by Charles Hoffman, a veteran re- porter for the Jerusalem Post, sought to examine whether the Jewish Agency/WZO is meeting the needs of Israel and the Jewish World. It also explored the rela- tionship between Diaspora lead- ership in America and the Zionist leadership in Israel, and called into question the historic lack of accountability on the part of some Israeli administrators for mil- lions of dollars raised in the United States for Israel. The Baltimore Jewish Times and JewishNews felt the Hoffman series was .compelling and mer- ited attention from the partici-. pants of the Assembly, so it was reprinted in booklet form and sent to Jerusalem last week in the hopes that it would be read and provide useful baekground infor- mation. According to Howard Weis- band, secretary general of the Jewish Agency, Jerrold Hoffberger, chairman of the Agency's board of gbvernors, in- tended to distribute the booklet to the board's 74 members. "Any in- formation I have," Hoffberger ex- plained in a radio interview, "ought to be in their hands as well." When the booklets were brought to a pre-assembly meet- ing of the Agency's top executive committee, there was a furious reaction from Dulzin and other representatives of the World Zionist Organization, who char- acterized the articles as beipg "full of malice and distortions." They vehemently denounced the 'illustrations in particular as being anti-Zionist and anti- Semitic, and called for Hoffberger's resignation. The conflict did not reach the Israeli public until Sunday morn- ing when it became a leading item in all of the news media. While the Agency executive and the full board of governors met in emer- gency session all morning to dis- cuss the matter, contradictory re- ports and rumors of an imminent split in the Agency leadership flooded the media and titillated arriving delegates. A committee was appointed to draw up a reso- lution, reportedly aimed at con- demning the booklet and the illustrations, for presentation to the board of governors on June 27. Seeking to put the bizarre con- flict in perspective, Dr. Daniel Elazar, president of the Jerusalem Institute of Public Af- fairs and an expert on the Jewish Agency, told feature writer Elsa Solender that the outcry over the booklets may very well be a red herring. He explained that Zionist Executive members have been looking for a pretense to further evade implementation of sweeping changes recommended several years ago by the gover- nance committee set up under the Caesarea Process. He added, how- ever, that the Giora Carmi illus- trations honestly offended many Israelis. "I am sadly and con- stantly surprised how neither side really understands the sen- sibilities of the other side after working together all these years," said Elazar, who now lives in Jerusalem but still spends much of his time in the United States for his research. Certainly the shrill tone of the debate was heightened by the Israeli media, famed for its ag- gressive style of reporting. There were constant references to a comparison made by Eli Tavin, chairman of the WZO culture and education department, of Carmi's drawings to those of Der Sturmer, the notorious Nazi pro- paganda journal. Hebrew-lang- uage dailies have been almost unanimous in denigrating the booklet and describing it as anti- Zionist, anti-Semitic and anti- Jewish. And the newspaper Davar ran a story on Giora Car- mi, who now lives in New York, describing him as a yored, one who has emigrated from Israel. The reporter asked Carmi if he was an anti-Semite. Even the Jerusalem Post, which ran the Hoffman series in a slightly condensed form after it had appeared in Baltimore and Detroit, called the cartoons "of- fensive," adding however that everyone had over-reacted. An editorial said that "Diaspora im- pulsiveness and insensitivity has played into the hands of the interlocking directorate of the Agency-WZO and political-party apparatus so as to deflect debate from the real source of strain and conflict." Several Jewish Agency de- partment heads pronounced the Hoffman articles "good jour- nalism," though they were less complimentary about the cartoons. "The cartoons are deplorable," said Shoshana Cardin, national president of the Council of Jewish Federations. "I have no problem with the articles," she added. "The issues raised are always being discussed, not just because Charles Hoffman wrote about them." As the author of the articles in question, Hoffman has been keeping a low profile at the Assembly. He said in an inter- view that he believes many of his