Leewards® \ocKER • KNITTING. BEADS • a Jewish Agency To Be Reformed 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. 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