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the movers and shakers
among the Diaspora fund-
raisers, who nominated him
to be the next Board of Gover-
nors chairman.
Kaplan has served since
1983 as chairman of the inter-
national board of trustees of
the United Israel Appeal-
Keren Hayesod (which raises
funds for the Jewish Agency
and World Zionist Organiza-
tion in countries outside the
United States).
He is expected to be formal-
ly elected to his new post
when the Board of Governors
meets in Jerusalem next
week (October 25-29) and will
take over when Hoffberger
steps down in January.
Kaplan's main rival for the
position was Ray Epstein, of
Chicago, a former president of
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, but Jewish Agency
sources in Jerusalem were at
pains to stress that there was
no anti-American motive
behind selection of the South
African. "Kaplan was just the
strongest candidate," said one
Agency source, who greeted
the news of his nomination
with enthusiasm. "He is a
man of broad vision and pro-
ven organizational skills. He
wanted the job and he worked
for it."
Mendel Kaplan differs from
his predecessors in that he
perceives the mandate of the
Jewish Agency in a broader
perspective. "In addition to
ensuring that the Agency
continues to do its work effec-
tively," said the source, "I
believe he will promote a
leadership role for the Jewish
Agency. I think he will try to
bring together Jewish
leaders, intellectuals, profes-
sionals and organizations
throughout the world in an
attempt to create a genuine
Jewish forum that will ad-
dress the issues and problems
facing the Jewish world as a
whole!'
Kaplan was described by
another Agency source as a
"coalition builder, a com-
promiser." He is a man with
a strong ego and lots of self-
confidence, but also a man
who will encourage a more
open style of decision-making
than in the past, a leader who
will be deeply and directly in-
volved in Agency affairs.
Kaplan's family history is a
rags-to-riches saga that rivals
those of many American im-
migrant dynasties.
His grandfather, Menachem
Mendel Kaplan, a Lithuanian
blacksmith, settled in South
Africa in 1903. Twenty years
later, Menachem Mendel's
son, Ike, founded the Cape
Gate Steel Works, near Cape
Town.
Today, Mendel Kaplan —
Mendel Kaplan
Ike's son — heads an in-
dustrial steel complex that
employs 5,000 workers in 12
plants: four in South Africa,
four in Britain, one in
Houston, Texas, and three in
Israel.
Five years ago, Cape Gate
Holdings formed an equal
partnership with one of
Israel's leading development
companies, the Discount
Bank Investment Corpora-
tion, to create Discount Bank
Investments International,
which channels South Afri-
can investments into Israel's
industrial development.
In this field, Mendel
Kaplan is regarded as a hard-
headed businessman who
makes no concessions to
Zionist sentimentality But in
his role as philanthropist and
benefactor, he makes no at-
tempt to hide his profound
emotional attachment to
Israel.
Over the years, the Kaplan
family has given generously
to many Israeli projects.
It has endowed, among
others, the reconstruction of
the Old Yishuv Court Mu-
seum in the Jewish Quarter
of the Old City of Jerusalem;
a major archeological dig in
the ancient City of David; the
Jerusalem Tennis Center in
the city's Katamon quarter,
and the Botanical Gardens of
the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Kaplan is also involved in
the rehabilitation of Jeru-
salem's Bukharan Quarter,
which was adopted by the
South African community in
the framework of Project
Renewal.
In 1985, Mayor 'Teddy Kol-
lek recognized his singular
contribution to the capital by
naming him the fourth
"Trustee of Jerusalem?'
Mendel Kaplan and his
wife, Jill, maintain a perma-
nent home in Jerusalem and
spend at least three months a
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