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centers in Israel, Meridor said. New
money must be raised in partnership
with the United Jewish Communities,
the umbrella group for North American
Jewish federations, and others, he said.
The new demands and shifting priori-
ties of the Jewish Agency come as the
UJC is reviewing its system for allocat-
ing overseas funds. The UJC's current
process, run by ONAD — the Overseas
Needs Assessment and Distribution
Committee — has been criticized by
both federations and their overseas part-
ners, the Jewish Agency and the
American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, which operates relief and
welfare programs for Jews abroad.
The ONAD process was an attempt
to respond to new developments,
including lower levels of aliyah and
increasing needs elsewhere in the world.
It was also an effort to encourage feder-
ations to increase their support of over-
seas needs at a time when allocations to
local projects have increased.
To the Jewish Agency's dismay, fed-
erations considered changing the long-
time 75-25 overseas allocations split
that favored the Jewish Agency over
the JDC. But after a laborious, expen-
sive process, the split was unchanged
and overseas funds were not increased
meaningfully.
They are still trying to figure out a
new approach, say UJC officials.
The Jewish Agency, which narrowly
avoided losing sizable funds from the

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Israel's Share

Rieger said that in 2004, out of a
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The dollar flow to the Jewish state
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