Sixteen new settlements will be established in Israel and in the administered areas one day during the 29th World Zionist Congress here in January and the delegates will visit the sites to take a symbolic part in the opening of the settlements, Yosef Almogi, chairman of the World Zionist Organization Executive, announced yesterday to newsmen on a radio program. It was learned that all of the settlements have been approved by the WZO Executive in coordination with the government.
Almogi stressed that the 29th Congress would be “a large Congress and a turning point,” adding that a four-year plan for all WZO departments will be presented at the meeting. Asked what he had proposed to the Horev Commission, which is investigating immigration and absorption procedures, Almogi said that if the present structure is continued.” strict divisions” must be set between the Jewish Agency and the Absorption Ministry, but would prefer a joint authority for immigration and absorption to replace the Agency’s aliya and absorption department and the Absorption Ministry.
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