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Thus it happened that many delegates to the Agen- cy Assembly who are not Board members were as- tounded by some of the revelations in the articles. And I was astounded that they were astounded. How are they supposed to perform their task as Assembly delegates, which is to set overall policy for the Agency, if they have only a small frac- tion of the knowledge possessed by the insiders who really run the show? How are the delegates sup- posed to find out what's real- ly going on — from the bland reports prepared by the Agen- cy departments that they are supposed to supervise? Some of the Assembly delegates were upset with the articles, and with me, for destroying some of their precious illusions about what is done with their contribu- tions. During a discussion of Youth Aliya, a leader of Canada Wizo, which raises funds for the department, gave vent to her frustrations. She pleaded with the director- general of Youth Aliya to "give us the ammunition so that we can go back to our people and tell them that what the articles say isn't true.' This is. accountability? I asked her later whether she would adopt the same ap- proach in dealing with critical revelations about a child welfare service of the Cana- dian government. Would she beg the authorities to "say it isn't so"? I explained to her that from my perspective as an Israeli, my first concern must be whether Youth Aliya is keeping up with Israel's needs. And while I appreciate Some Key Issues The five part series ex- amined some key issues now Acriwund AuctTo8 Tel-Twelve Mall • 12 Mile & Telegraph • Southfield Holiday hours: Daily 10-9:30 • Sunday 11-6 • 354-9060 Fine furniture & accessories always 20% off. 54 ,.Eriday, December 5, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS on the agenda of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, which have budgets for 1986/87 or $429 million and $59 million respectively. Some of the main points of the articles, in somewhat simplified form, are as follows: • The $30 million spent each year on maintaining thousands of disadvantaged Israeli-born youth in expen- sive boarding schools is based partly on outmoded concepts. This system, run by the Agency Youth Aliya Department, is only mini- mally coordinated with the government's child welfare programs, and is perpetu- ated in part because it serves the interests of Zionist political parties. Political pressures on the department has turned it in- to the biggest source of Agency (i.e., UJA) funds for non-Zionist and anti-Zionist yeshivas. • The hundreds of millions of dollars that over the years have been nominally allo- cated by the Agency to Israel's universities have ac- tually been transferred to the WZO, under a shadowy system of indirect financing that relieves all concerned — the Agency, the WZO and the Israeli government — from having to account for the funds. shlihztt • The WZO system, which sends hun- dreds of Zionist emissaries around the world each year, has in many ways reached a dead end, at least in North America. Major changes in the system recommended by an independent commission are being resisted by some of the main parties in the WZO. • A growing number of federation leaders in America, formerly known as non-Zionists," have become more committed to Israel and have begun to support activities that used to be the preserve of the WZO, such as promoting aliya and Jewish education. Some WZO leaders have resisted these efforts as unwarranted invasions of their turf. `' • While both the Agency and WZO endorse religious pluralism, many of the Reform and Conservative re- quests for funds are denied through channels that are opened generously for in- stitutions with the right political connections in the WZO. • A growing number of American Jewish leaders are fed up with the way the Agency has been run and are calling for changes that go beyond the modest im- provements of the past 10 years. The Council of Jewish Federations recently ap- proved a resolution calling for depoliticization of the Agency, which means keep- ing WZO politics out of Agency business. This call was also endorsed by the UJA since the series 'was published. C.H.