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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NEWS

Jewish Agency Leaders
Tussle At Assembly

Jerusalem (JTA) — As the
Jewish Agency Assembly open-
ed here last Sunday, the power
struggle for leadership per-
sisted with one senior member
of the Jewish Agency Executive
calling for an end to the uneasy
partnership of Zionist and non-
Zionist fundraisers who control
the Agency.
Nissim Zvilli, head of the Set-
tlement Department, said that
a new kind of partnership be-
tween diaspora Jewry and
Israeli Jews must be forged and
the existing partnership in the
Jewish Agency between Ameri-
can Jewish leaders of fund-
raising organizations and
leaders of Zionist movements
should be dissolved.
The Jewish Agency Assemb-
ly convened Sunday for a week-
long session to discuss the com-
ing year's budget, programs
and a number of political issues
including the nature of the
partnership between the
American fundraisers who pro-
vide the bulk of the Agency's
budget and the Zionist
contingent.
"We have differences of con-
ception and mentality that can-
not be bridged," Zvilli said. "In
the past decade the (fund-
raisers) have been so dominant
in the system, that the Zionist
movement has been weakened
into a stage of decadence. The
(fundraisers) stress Jewish
identity in the diaspora,
whereas we prefer Zionist
education and aliya," he said.
He referred to the continued
strain in the relations between
the two camps which culmin-
ated when the Jewish Agency
Board of Trustees demanded
that the chairman of the Ex-
ecutive and the Treasurer of the
Jewish Agency bear personal
responsibility for running
Agency affairs. The Board also
suggested that the terms of of-
fice for members of the Ex-
ecutive be limited.
In other developments, it was
expected that a contingency
plan for massive Soviet Jewish
immigration, funding for
Reform and Conservative im-
migrants to Israel and proposed
changes in the "Who is a Jew?"
law will likely be discussed at
the Assembly. The 398
members of the Jewish Agency
Assembly meet annually to
review the coming year's
budget — a proposed $427
million — and programs. This
year, the Assembly will also
elect a new Board of Governors.

The Jewish Agency's pro-
gramming is largely devoted to
social welfare, promoting
Jewish immigration and reset-
tlement of new immigrants.
Yet, politics is rarely absent
from the Assembly. Tensions
between the so-called Zionist
factions, which align along
Israeli party lines and the

American fund-raisers, who
provide the bulk of the Agen-
cy's annual budget, have been
labelled by some a crisis.
Some local Jewish Federa-
tions have shown a desire to ex-
ert more direct control over
where their dollars are going
and the programs themselves.
In January, the Jewish Com-
munity Federation of San Fran-
cisco, the Peninsula, Marin and
Sonoma Counties decided to
allocate $100,000 directly to
charities in Israel not funded by
the Jewish Agency, instead of to
the United Jewish Appeal
(UJA).
The federation made the
allocation, a small percentage
of its $8.5 million annual con-
tribution to UJA, as a state-
ment that its priorities were
not being addressed within the
Jewish Agency framework. .
"The issue of the kind of part-
nership between Israel and the
diaspora and the quality of that
partnership will be raised," said
Irving Kessler, executive vice-
chairman of United Israel Ap-
peal (UIA). The UIA is the
organization created to channel
the money raised by UJA in
North America to the Jewish
Agency. Half of the Agency
Assembly is composed of UIA
delegates representing Federa-
tions across America.
The other half comes from the
Zionist parties represented in
the World Zionist Organization
(WZO). Kessler urged the
Zionist contingent of the Agen-
cy to "deemphasize politics"
and work for a common and
united leadership.
Leon Dulzin, chairman of the
WZO and the Jewish Agency,
called for the full union of the
WZO and the Jewish Agency
and general reform in the struc-
ture of both organizations.
Speaking to the Zionist
General Council (ZGC, the
leadership body of the WZO),
Dulzin said such a union could
eliminate much of the overlap
in the two organizations'
programs.
Ephraim Even, chairman of
the ZGC, warned against the
trend of leading fund-raisers
taking over the Jewish Agency.
He recommended that the WZO
maintain control over the
Jewish Agency as well as aliya
and Jewish education programs
in the diaspora.
But beyond the politics of
leadership and control, specific
programs and issues will come
under scrutiny during the
Assembly session, including
the economic troubles of
agricultural kibbutzim and
moshavim, aliyah and absorp-
tion processes, and the con-
troversy over funding for "non-
Zionist" elements in Israel.
The ongoing debate over the
"Who is a Jew?" question also
is likely to be on the Assembly's
agenda. Last month, Jerold

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