Leon Gellman, president of the Mizrachi Organization of America and chairman of the executive of the World Mizrachi movement, today issued a statement denying a report from Jerusalem that the World Mizrachi executive will liquidate some of its departments, including the agricultural department and the Religious Youth Aliyah Bureau.
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