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Jerusalem (JTA) — Simcha
Dinitz will take a leave of
absence as chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel if
the state attorney general
indicts him on charges of
embezzlement, according to
an agreement reached this
week.
Until then, he will remain
in his post, though the time
demands of his legal case are
likely to reduce his daily
duties.
The agreement stipulates
that Mr. Dinitz will volunta-
rily retire on Dec. 31, 1994,
if legal proceedings that may
be initiated against him are
not concluded by then.
If Dinitz is exonerated
before the end of 1994,
Mendel Kaplan:
however, he has the right to
Headed the negotiations.
remain in office. But Mr.
Dinitz said he plans to retire
anyway, though he reserves
the right to keep his options
Reaction from them was
open.
muted, with most choosing
Mr. Dinitz, a Labor Pa rty
not to comment at this time.
politician and former a m-
Mr. Kaplan stressed that
bassador to the Unit ed
the decision not to remove
States, is accused of embez zl-
Mr. Dinitz from his post im-
ing thousands of dolla rs
mediately and to wait for ac-
through improper use of h is
tion by the attorney general
Jewish Agency credit car d.
is in keeping with Israeli
The Israeli police conclud ed
practice and custom.
an investigation of tho se
In a letter Mr. Kaplan
charges last week and r e- wrote announcing the deci-
portedly recommended to sion, he explained that in
the attorney general that h e
Israel, "any such action
be indicted.
taken before the decision of
The agreement fulfilled a the attorney general to sub-
commitment made July 1 b y mit the case to court could be
the Jewish Agency Board of an admission of guilt and
Governors to resolve th e
prejudice the rights of the
Dinitz affair by the end of chairman."
August. It was reached onl •
"The Jewish Agency is a
after intensive behind- th e- body and organization in •
scenes negotiations betwee n
Israel," he said, pointedly,
Mr. Dinitz, Board of G-ovei
"which operates according to
nors Chairman Mende 1 the laws and customs of the
Kaplan, founding chairma n State of Israel."
Max Fisher and Prime Min
"We cannot impose on
ister Yitzhak Rabin.
Israel the customs and
Announcing the agree - usage" of "other countries,"
ment at a news conference , he added.
Mr. Kaplan conceded tha t
The recommendation,
"if we had had a quicke ✓ which was accepted by an
resolution, it would hay e advisory group of leaders of
been better-received aroun d the United Israel Appeal,
the world."
Keren Hayesod and the
But he added that Jewish
World Zionist Organization,
Agency leaders "had to bal - took into consideration a
ante the rights of the in - report on the allegations
dividual with the integrity against Mr. Dinitz made by
of the organization."
Judge Abraham Gafni, a
Several leaders o f Jewish Agency leader from
Diaspora fund-raising bodies Philadelphia who was asked
had wanted Mr. Dinitz to to look into the affair's im-
take an immediate leave of pact on fund raising.
absence. They claimed that
In the event Mr. Dinitz
the allegations against him, goes on leave, the resulting
whether true or not, have vacancy will be filled by the
tainted the Jewish Agency Board of Governors in con-
and damaged their fund- sultation with the consti-
raising campaigns.
tuent organizati ons an the