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aliyah was taboo at Jewish
gatherings in the "affluent
Diaspora."
Answering a question on the
conflict in Israel between reli-
gious and secular extremists,
Herzog said that American
ohm could raise the level of
democratic debate and
tolerance in Israel. Calling the
conflict "the most serious prob-
lem Israel faces today," he
added somewhat cryptically, "I
would say that the source of
many of these problems lies in
the United States, in the
American Jewish community
. . . But I have to emphasize
here again that many of the
peripheral problems that we
have, racist problems, extreme
fanatical forms of Orthodoxy
that really do not recognize the
State of Israel, these are prob-
lems that have come from the
United States and are, inciden-
tally to this day, funded from
the United States."
Also speaking at the opening
session were Israel's Deputy
Prime Minister David Levy
and Leon Dulzin, chairman of
the Jewish Agency and World
Zionist Organization execu-
tives.
Levy, who spoke in Hebrew
with simultaneous English
translation, declared to fervent
cheers that "the essence of
Zionism is the return to Zion."
He argued that the Jewish
world is dividing into two
camps, one in Israel ("the place
where we shall build and be re-
built"), the other in the Dias-
pora. "Can we keep (Israel)
alive if the greatest part of the
Jewish people lives abroad?"
he asked his listeners.
Ours is the most privileged
of generations, he said, for we
are able to rebuild Zion. There-
fore, he thundered, "the call to
Jews all over the world, indeed
the demand: Arise, make
aliyah, come, and together we
shall build what belongs to us."
Dulzin recounted how the
Zionist movement has
"adopted to changes in the
needs of the Jewish people," in-
cluding the "Zionization" of the
Jewish Agency. Only the
Zionist movement, he asserted,
can fight the trends of assimi-
lation and low fertility among
Jews.
He described the ladder of
Zionist commitment, with
identification with the goals of
Zionism as the lowest rung and
aliyah and "Zionist fulfill-
ment" as the highest. "Aliyah
is the beginning of Zionism,"
he said, "not the end."
If so, argued the aliyah ac-
tivists, why is all the power in
the AZF in the hands of
middle-rung Zionists, while
the top-rung Zionists, those
who are planning to make
aliyah, have no voice in Zionist
decisionmaking?
"The leadership has to be
more than people who walk
down Fifth Avenue in the Sa-
lute to Israel parade," argued
Gil Preuss, general secretary
of Hamagshimim of
Hashachar,
Hadassah's
Zionist youth movement. "I'm
getting the same thing from
the (non-Zionist Jewish) feder-
ations as I'm getting from the
Zionists," he charged.
Aliyah activists decried
their lack of separate repre-
sentation in the WZO and what
they believe is minimal AZF
support of aliyah.
"We're in a Catch-22 situa-
tion," Preuss explained. "They
say the aliyah budget is small
because there isn't much
aliyah, but aliyah would be
greater if more was spent on
it."
The aliyah activists were
"manipulated" and "used as
symbols" during the Assembly,
he argued. Concrete proposals
by the activists were not given
a serious hearing.
A resolution that the AZF
leadership be commited to
aliyah and that one-third of the
152 -U.S. delegates to the up-
"The UJA and JNF
belong on the
agenda of a Zionist
conference. They
are our main fund
raising bodies."
coming World Zionist Assem-
bly be from the Federation of
Tnuot Magshimot (Aliyah
movements) was voted down
by the resolutions committee
before the Assembly opened.
Another proposal, to estab-
lish an emergency loan fund to
allow potential olim with
money troubles to make
aliyah, and olim with out-
standing debts to stay in Israel,
received only "encourage-
ment" rather than "commit-
ment" from the AZF, Preuss
charged.
The AZA attempted unsuc-
cessfully to reach a com-
promise with the activists, ac-
cording to AZF Executive Di-
rector Karen Rubinstein. Re-
garding representation, the ac-
tivists "don't take advantage of
the representation powers they
do have," she said. Naam, the
North American Aliyah
Movement, for example, has
five members on the national
board. Fifteen members were
invited to the convention, but
only two showed up, she said.
Rubinstein asserted that
"there is an interest in (the
AZF) leadership for better
communication" with the ac-
tivists. She stressed that this
requires working within the
system.
The assembly was a beehive
of activity, with events often
occurring simultaneously.
While Simcha Dinitz, Labor
Party Knesset member, ad-
dressed the main body of the
Assembly on Israel's security
situation, in a room directly be-
low, Avraham Burg, an ad-
visor to Foreign Minister Shi-
mon Peres, held a heated dis-
cussion with about 25 young
activists. As the audience