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Jewish Agency
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New York (JTA) — A com-
promise has at last been
reached in a long-running
dispute between the two fac-
tions comprising the Jewish
Agency for Israel.
The agreement will con-
tinue the process of dis-
engaging the Jewish Agency
from Israeli politics.
Under the deal, two
department head positions
that have traditionally been
filled with political ap-
pointees will be eliminated.
And the Jewish Agency's
board of governors will be
expanded to include Israelis
with accomplishments out-
side the political arena.
The Jewish Agency is the
principal recipient of money
raised for Israel by the
United Jewish Appeal.
Much of its half-billion-
Shoshana Cardin:
Wants to involve more Israelis.
dollar budget is devoted to
bringing emigres from the
former Soviet Union and
elsewhere to Israel and
assisting in their absorption.
The agreement still re-
quires formal ratification
and will not take full effect
for four years.
Depoliticization has long
been a goal of the so-called
Diaspora fund-raisers,
representatives of the
United Jewish Appeal and
Keren Hayesod campaigns
that fund the Jewish Agency
and share control of it with
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion.
The WZO, by contrast, is
organized along political
lines. It includes represent-
atives of Diaspora Zionist
organizations, such as
Hadassah and the Religious
Zionists of America, appor-
tioned according to elections
last held in 1987, as well as
representatives of Israeli po-
litical parties, apportioned
according to the Knesset
elections.
Among the proposed
changes will be the inclusion
of Israelis nOt part of the po-
litical system among the
WZO's delegation to the
Jewish Agency board.
"Involving more Israelis in
the whole process will help
the Jewish Agency be seen
as an integral part of the
fabric of Israeli society, in-
stead of as a separate
Diaspora-led entity," said
Shoshana Cardin, chairman
of the Goals and Priorities
Committee of the Jewish
Agency's Board of Gover-
nors.
The conflict between the
two separate cultures of the
Jewish Agency — the
apolitical, largely American
fund-raisers and the polit-
ical, largely Israeli Zionists
— came to a head recently
over the question of whether
two Jewish Agency depart-
ments, Immigrant Absorp-
tion and Youth Aliyah,
needed both a chairman and
a director-general.
The fund-raisers argued
that the department
chairmen, selected along
partisan lines in accordance
with the political divisions
in the WZO, duplicate the
work of the director- gen-
erals, who are generally
staff professionals.
WZO leaders argued that
the department chairmen
perform a role parallel to
that of a lay leader of an
American organization.
Under the agreement
hammered out by a six-
member committee of each
side's top leadership and an-
nounced at a recent meeting
of the Jewish Agency board
of governors, the department
chairmen's posts will be
eliminated, but not until
1997.
The agreement requires
formal ratification from the
member bodies of the Jewish
Agency, as well as of the
Jewish Agency itself. But it
is expected that weariness
over the long-running
debate and a desire to con-
clude it will outweigh any
qualms with the agreement.
The most far-reaching
clause of the agreement may
be one that would expand
the Jewish Agency Board of
Governors from 74 to 120
members. ❑
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