Agreement Reached by All Zionist Groups in Canada Hailed by Pincus

Louis A. Pincus, Jewish Agency chairman, today warmly hailed an agreement reached by all Canadian Zionist organizations last week, creating a new “Federated Zionist Organization of Canada.”

This all-embracing body is to include the Zionist Organization of Canada, Wizo-Hadassah, the Labor Zionist Organization of Canada, the Mizrachi Organization of Canada, Herut, Achdut Avodah, Mapam, and will invite the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, the Jewish National Fund, Histadrut Campaign, Weizmann Institute, Canadian Technion Society and the Canadian Friends of the Bar Ilan University to affiliate.

The unified Canadian Zionist body, according to the agreement reached, “will manage all Zionist affairs, including public relations, education and culture, youth, camps, aliyah, publications, United Israel Appeal and budgets.” Preceding the agreement, Mr. Pincus met with the Canadian Zionist leaders several times in Jerusalem, Brussels, New York and Montreal, where negotiations were successfully completed.

In his statement, Mr. Pincus stressed today that “the Canadian Zionists, by this exercise in statesmanship, have demonstrated their overriding awareness that a unified Zionism has a key role to perform in our times. Their agreement emphasizes those present-day responsibilities and common tasks shared by all groups towards the Jewish community at large and the State of Israel in particular. These common tasks by far outweigh in importance in the diasporas the differences whose center of validity is in Israel.

“Canadian Jewry and the Jewish Agency will surely hail this agreement with approbation,” he continued “it is to be welcomed by the World Zionist Organization as a major step forward in its efforts to reshape its thinking and structure in line with the needs of our time.” Mr. Pincus left New York for Jerusalem today after participating in the United Jewish Appeal Conference in New York and at meetings of the American Section of the Commission for the Reorganization of the World Zionist Organization.