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Friday, June 19, 1987
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
T
he annual assembly of
the Jewish Agency of
Israel will take place
in Jerusalem from June
21-25, and hundreds of
delegates from around the
world have been sent a 40-page
briefing manual to prepare
them for the meeting. But two
of the most important issues
facing the delegates are not
mentioned in the manual:
namely, who will succeed Leon
Dulzin in December as chair-
man of the executive, and
whether or not Jerold Hoff-
berger of Baltimore will elect to
run for a second four-year term
as chairman of the board of
governors.
Hoffberger, 68, has kept even
his closest associates in the
dark over his decision and some
say he has not made a final
determination yet.
The Jewish Agency, charged
with overseeing the distribu-
tion of about a half billion
dollars raised yearly by
Diaspora Jewish communities
for use in Israel, has come
under increasing scrutiny in re-
cent years regarding its struc-
ture and operations.
At the Agency's quarterly
meeting in Jerusalem in
February, Dulzin, 74, who has
long been viewed as symbolic of
the patronage and politiciza-
tion of the Jewish Agency and
World Zionist Organization,
agreed to relinquish his chair-
manship of both organizations
at the end of this year. He had
been criticized for his role, or
lack of it, in the recent Bank
Leumi scandal.
The Labor Party's candidate
to succeed him will likely be
Akiva Lewinsky, treasurer of
the Jewish Agency, a veteran
insider, though Uri Gordon,
who heads the Youth Aliya
department, is also vying for
the post. American Jewish
leaders, who have taken an in-
creasingly active role in gover-
ning the Jewish Agency in re-
cent years, would prefer an
"outsider" with an interna-
tional reputation to succeed
Dulzin. They are reportedly
pushing for Simcha Dinitz, the
former ambassador to the U.S.,
or Benjamin Netanyahu, the
current ambassador to the U.N.
It is unclear, though, whether
either of these men would take
the post.
But while Dulzin's term ex-
pires in December, the issue of
who will be the chairman of the
board of governors is more
pressing since Hoffberger's
term ends this month. Credited
by many with increasing the
professionalism of the Jewish
Agency, Hoffberger said when
Hoffberger: completing a four-
year term as chairman of the
governing board of the Jewish
Agency.
he assumed his present position
that one term was enough.
But there are reports that he
has changed his mind since
then. Some say that he would
prefer to stay in office at least
long enough to oversee the elec-
tion of a new chairman to suc-
ceed Dulzin this winter. Others
say that he would rather seek
another term than see Morton
Mandel of Cleveland succeed
him. Another possible suc-
cessor, Mendel Kaplan,
reportedly has appeared eager
to assume the post; another fac-
tor against him is that he is
from South Africa.
Among the issues certain to
be discussed at the Assembly
are plans for the absorption of
large numbers of Soviet Jews;
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tion's recommendations that
the Jewish Agency operate
more American-style, with a
chief executive officer; funding
for non- or anti-Zionist
yeshivas; and religious
pluralism.
MINIIIME11111•11111106,
Leprich To Lose
His Citizenship
Johann Leprich, who admit-
ted he concealed his member-
ship in the Nazi Death's Head
Battalion when he entered the
United States in 1952, is to be
stripped of his citizenship.
U.S. District Judge Barbara
Hackett ruled June 8 that the
Clinton Township resident be
denaturalized, a move that
could lead to his deportation.
Leprich is one of three
Detroit-area residents accused
by the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment's Office of Special In-
vestigations of concealing their
participation in war crimes
when they entered the U.S.