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Yet, when the Zionist (and non-Zionist) functionaries in the past few weeks "deteriorated" to arguing publicly over the nitty-gritty of electing a new chairman of the World Zionist Organiza- tion (WZO)-Jewish Agency Executive, the public eye glimpsed — however briefly — in the direction of the Jewish Agency headquarters of 48 King George St. in Jerusalem. Not that there was a sudden awakening of public interest in the affairs of the Zionist movement or its social service agency. It is simply that the fund-raisers' veto last month of Akiva Lewinsky, the Labor Party's candidate for the chairmanship of the ex- ecutive, seemed like a political story more heavily loaded than the usual petty politics which characterize the movement. Indeed, the Israeli media this past month devoted much more time and print space to the Jewish Agen- cy/WZO than in years. Not that it perked public interest. Some opinion makers, such as Yakir Tzur of the newspaper Davar, felt that the public was simply unaware of the historic events taking place before its very eyes. "The rejection of Lewinsky is but the first shot in the revolution the fund-raisers' plan in the Jewish Agency," he writes. "The question on the agenda is not whether Akiva Lewinsky will be the chairman of the Jewish Agen- cy or not, but rather to what degree will the State of Israel remain independent, deter- mining the list of priorities in the Jewish Agency?" But even this rather dramatic observation seems to be limited to a handful of agency watchers. The public, by and large, is simply uninterested. "All I know of the Jewish Agency is that it helps absorb immigrants, collects money abroad and promotes set- tlements," said Guy Sand, 14, of Jerusalem. He knew nothing of Lewinsky, or for Hoffberger: Unknown that matter, of Jerold Hoff- berger of Baltimore, the outgoing chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, who was the driv- ing force behind the veto of Lewinsky. "All I know of the Jewish Agency is that it is a money- spending organization with no real value," said Karni Elhanan, a tour guide from Haifa. She made a few other comments, all potentially libelous. Likud Knesseter Ehud Olmert spelled out similar comments in an interview with the Jerusalem Post recently. "Organized Jewry sees the agency as the main channel for Israel-Diaspora relations. But they either don't know or don't want to know that in Israel the Agen- cy is a symbol of all that peo- ple despise in the political establishment," Olmert said. "It is seen as corrupt, inef- ficient, anachronistic and ir- relevant." He suggested that the in- fluence of Israel's political parties in the Jewish Agency and the WZO be drastically reduced. many Paradoxically, Israelis feel that the ailments of the Zionist movement were caused by the diminishing in- terest in it by the political parties. After the establishment of the state, writes columnist Shmuel Schnitzer in the newspaper Maariv, the top- level politicians were assign- ed to the Knesset and govern- ment bureaucracies, the se- cond level was sent to the Histadrut labor federation and the more important municipalities, and the third- rate politicians went to the WZO. "In the eyes of the political parties," writes Schnitzer, "the WZO is like a home for the aged, and perhaps a