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GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
endel Kaplan, the
South African in-
dustrialist who was
recently elected chairman of
the board of governors of the
Jewish Agency, is refreshing-
ly candid about his mandate.
He acknowledges that the im-
age of the Jewish Agency is
"terrible" — justifiably so in
some respects, he says — and
suggests that the best way to
change that image is "not to
come up with bright slogans,
but to change the reality of
the workings of the Agency
from within."
And that's what he has set
out to do. Kaplan was in
Washington one day last
week as part of a U.S. visit
that he intends to make three
times a year to keep Ameri-
can Jewish leaders personal-
ly involved with the changes
being made within the
Jewish Agency, a quasi-
governmental body which
channels Diaspora contribu-
tions to appropriate social ser-
vice programs in Israel. "I
want to maintain a face-to-
face dialogue," he said during
an interview with the
Baltimore Jewish Times, "to
hear feedback from the
leaders here and to explain to
them our new programs."
Kaplan maintains a resi-
dence in Jerusalem and will
be living there at least
through June. "My central
address is Jerusalem, as it
should be," he says, "because
my main occupation is over-
seeing the Jewish Agency?'
While noting that the
Agency has become "the
whipping dog" of the Jewish
media and many Israeli and
Diaspora leaders, Kaplan em-
phasized that new efforts are
being made to avoid duplica-
tion within the Agency's
numerous divisions and
departments. He cited as ex-
amples an effort to work with
Israeli development towns
through one department
rather than seven, as had
been the case, and to coor-
dinate the 384 different pro-
grams dealing with Jewish
educational visits to Israel.
"We need one over-arching
authority to bring order to
the confusion," said Kaplan,
who describes himself as "a
nuts-and-bolts man." An ar-
ticulate and open leader,
Kaplan said that the one sur-
prise to him in his new post
is the degree of political -sen
sitivity his position holds.
He seems headed for a
Kaplan:
"a nuts-and-bolts man."
showdown with Israeli politi-
cians who will fight what ap-
pears to be an inevitable
move towards trimming the
fat by reducing staff at the
Agency.
Another area of focus for
the Agency involves the ab-
sorption of new immigrants.
Until now, the Jewish Agen-
cy was responsible for absorp-
tion needs, including housing
and employment, for the first
six months, after which time
the government's Ministry of
Absorption took over. Kaplan
is hoping to implement a new
plan soon that would restruc-
ture the effort without caus-
ing any hardship on the
immigrants.
Two other areas of change
for the Agency, according to
Kaplan, are asset manage-
ment and developing new
priorities. The Agency cur-
rently owns a great deal of
housing and may want to sell
some off, "to utilize our assets
and help remove our debt."
Planning ahead, future
educational needs are being
explored, such as computer
literacy, and questions
regarding rural vs. urban set-
tlement are being discussed
"so we can be more focused,
more effective and more effi-
cient!"
Kaplan emphasized that he
is working closely and well
with Simcha Dinitz, the new-
ly elected executive of the
Jewish Agency, his profes-
sional counterpart, and that
their approach is unified.
Asked about the current
crisis between Palestinians
and Jews in the West Bank
and Gaza, Kaplan stressed
the continuity of the Jewish
people and the need to under-
stand what it means to be
linked — past, present and