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Battle For The
Jewish Agency

It's charisma vs. experience as Burg and Leket
square off in fight to succeed Simcha Dinitz.

INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

I

he chairmanship of the
Jewish Agency for Israel
has long been the preserve
of senescent pols ap-
proaching the end of less-than-
glorious careers ("the Miami
Beach of Israeli politics," as one
wit put it). Now, however — like
so many other things in the Is-
rael of the '90s — that is chang-
ing.
The candidates to complete the
remaining two years of Simcha
Dinitz's chairmanship are of quite
another ilk. (Mr. Dinitz, former
Israeli ambassador to the Unit-
ed States, is on trial for alleged
misuse of Jewish Agency funds.)
The election is raising questions
about where the Jewish Agency
is headed and what kind
of chairman it needs: a
charismatic minister to
the Diaspora or a solid
CEO-type who can en-
hance the agency's im-
pact by improving its
management. That is
the crux of the contest
between Yehiel "Hillik"
Leket and Avraham
"Avrum" Burg.
For the benefit of the
uninitiated, the Jewish
Agency is the quasi-gov-
ernmental body funded
by the United Jewish
Appeal (through the
Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit
and other Jewish feder-
ations in the United
States) and Keren
Hayesod outside the
United States. Estab-
lished as the govern-
ment of the Jews in
Israel before the creation
of the state, the agency's main re-
sponsibilities are in the areas of
immigration to Israel, rural and
urban development, Youth
Aliyah facilities for teen-age im-
migrants and Israeli youngsters
from troubled homes, activities
in the former Soviet Union, and
various educational programs
run with the World Zionist Or-
ganization through the Joint Au-
thority for Jewish Zionist
Education.
Last year, the Jewish Agency
commanded a budget of $500 mil-
lion and boasted a staff of some
2,300 employees (down from
4,500). The continued streamlin-
ing of the staff is just one of the
achievements cited by Mr. Leket,
who has been the agency's acting
chairman since Mr. Dinitz took

leave last February. He calls the
changes he's introduced over the
past 10 months a "quiet revolu-
tion" effected "without riots or
bloodshed."
"A year ago, I found the Jew-
ish Agency in a state of disarray
and demoralization," Mr. Leket
recalls. "Today morale is high,
there's harmony within the sys-
tem, and for the first time in its
history, the Jewish Agency is
working in close coordination
with the Ministry of Absorption
and the Joint" (the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Corn-
mittee, which has a broad net-
work in the former Soviet Union
and Central Europe).
Mr. Leket also has tried to

Avraham Burg: The outsider.

keep pace with fashion on the pol-
icy-making level. In response to
Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi
Beilin's suggestions to dismantle
the Jewish Agency and replace
the World Zionist Organization
with a completely new, democ-
ratically constituted organization
called "Bet Yisrael" [House of Is-
rael], Mr. Leket proposed in his
own "Seven-Point Program" a
"revolutionary change in the
structure of the partnership be-
tween Israel and world Jewry,"
including the creation of "a bond
based upon democratization."
After serving briefly as a mem-
ber of the Knesset, Mr. Leket
spent the better part of his career
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