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Lewinsky Is Losing
Labor Party Support
Jerusalem (JTA)
The
possibility of the Labor Party
dropping Akiva Lewinsky as
its candidate for the chair-
manship of the world Zionist
Organization and Jewish
Agency Executive appears to
be gaining momentum.
Although Lewinsky's elec-
tion had been considered vir-
tually assured, he ran into op-
position last month from a
powerful group of 12 Diaspora
Jewish fundraisers.
According to power-sharing
rules between the Jewish
Agency and the WZO, the
outcome of the congress elec-
tions is subject to the "advice
and consent" of the Jewish
Agency Board of Governors.
The board could veto Lewin-
sky if he were elected at the
World Zionist Congress in
Jerusalem in December.
Diaspora leaders and Zionists
each comprise half of the
74-member board.
Although the Labor Party
Executive reiterated its com-
mitment to Lewinsky last
week, re-endorsing the earlier
unanimous nomination by
the party's central committee,
a group of Labor Zionist
delegates to the congress is
now urging the party to
rethink its support.
This is the first public ar-
ticulation within the party
that Lewinsky, who served as
Jewish Agency-WZO
treasurer for the past nine
years, will have to be dropped.
Informed political sources
say Labor Party leader
Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign
minister, privately expects
Lewinsky to bow out. Should
he do so, Labor would be ex-
pected to nominate either
Simcha Dinitz, a former am-
bassador to the United States,
or Mordechai Gur, a former
Israel Defense Force Chief of
staff and former cabinet
minister.
Dissident Labor delegates,
led by Jerusalem-area ac-
tivist Yehezkel Shopps, stress-
ed at a meeting Sunday night
that they had nothing per-
sonal against Lewinsky. But
they felt a "golden opportuni-
ty" may be wasted if the par-
ty continues to support his
candidacy.
This was a reference to an
arrangement the Labor Par-
ty made with several
Diaspora Zionist factions. In
return for support for Labor's
candidate, the office of WZO
treasurer would go to
Avraham Avihai, a Canadian-
born Israeli who is the choice
of the Confederation of
United Zionists, a coalition of
Zionist organizations of
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Akiva Lewinsky: Bowing out?
which Hadassah is the
largest component.
Other top portofolios were
to go to the Association of
Reform Zionists of America
and to Mercaz, the Conser-
vative Zionist organization.
Labor's rival, Likud-Herut,
would thereby be excluded
from the most important
WZO posts.
The dissidents also com-
plained that the Labor
Zionist movement, headed by
former Knesset member
Yehiel Leket, had misled the
Israeli party as to the
strength of the Diaspora
fundraisers' opposition to
Lewinsky.
Whoever goes to the con-
gress as the Labor candidate
for chairman may face a
Likud challenge. Although
that party has not yet
nominated anyone, Likud-
Liberal Gideon Patt, the
minister of science and
technology, is expected to
enter the race. He flew to the
United States this week, ap-
parently to lobby for support
among American delegates.
Arab Relocation
Deal Revealed
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Israeli
government, following the
1967 Six-Day War, purchased
large tracts of land in Arab
countries, including Libya
and Iraq, for the purpose of
relocating Palestinian
families from its newly con-
quered territories, Haaretz
reported Monday.
The policy was officially
called an "exchange of
populations," Haaretz said.
The objective was to transfer
the property of West Bank
Arabs to the Israeli govern-
ment and compensate them
with property in one of the
Arab countries, where they