Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Israel and Dewey D. Stone, national chairman of the United Israel Appeal, today issued a joint statement announcing that a plan has been agreed upon for the active participation of important American Jewish leaders in the handling of funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal for the United Israel Appeal programs in Israel.
This plan has been evolved as a result of discussions which have taken place in recent months between leaders of the United Jewish Appeal, the United Israel Appeal and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The board of directors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., an American philanthropic body with headquarters in New York, which will handle these funds, will consist of 21 members of whom 14 are outstanding active leaders in fund raising in their respective communities and in the United Jewish Appeal to be designated by the United Israel Appeal, and seven to be designated by the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
This board of 21 directors will each year construct its own budget and determine the particular activities and programs of immigration, absorption, resettlement, education and other philanthropic activities conducted by the Jewish Agency for Israel which it desires to support and to what extent.
NEW BODY TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH JEWISH AGENCY IN JERUSALEM
In advance of each budgetary year, the Jewish Agency for Israel will submit to the board of directors a survey of needs and an itemized statement of funds required in order to meet the needs of assistance to immigrants already in Israel and for such new immigrants as can be anticipated. The board of directors will enter detailed agreement with the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem and will designate the latter as its agent to perform the necessary services to implement the programs and activities approved and specified in the budget by the board.
With the aid of funds received from Jewish communities throughout the Free World, principally through the U.J.A., the Jewish Agency for Israel has borne the unique responsibility of bringing to, caring for and resettling in Israel nearly 1,000, 000 Jewish refugees since World War II.
Dr. Dov Joseph, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel, came especially from Jerusalem to attend an all-day meeting of the 21 board members-designate convened by Dewey D.Stone, national chairman of the UIA. He presented a detailed analysis of the budget and program of work of the Jewish Agency in Israel for the year 1960-61.
The following have been invited to serve as members of the board of directors: Morris W. Berinstein, New York City; Rabbi Isidore Breslau, Washington, D.C.; Samuel H. Daroff, Philadelphia; Melvin Dubinsky, St, Louis, Missouri; Max M. Fisher, Detroit, Michigan; Dr. Israel Goldstein, New York City; Dr. Nahum Goldmann, New York City; Abraham Goodman, New York City; Dr. Dov Joseph, Jerusalem; Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, New York City.
Also, Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Philip M. Klutznick, Chicago, III.; Albert A. Levin, Cleveland, Ohio; Joseph M. Mazer, New York City; Joseph Meyerhoff, Baltimore, Md. ; Dr. Emanuel Neumann, New York City; Louis Segal, New York City; Philip Stollman, Detroit, Michigan; Dewey D.Stone, Brockton, Mass. Ralph Wechsler, Newark, N. J.; Jack D. Weiler, New York City.
All those invited to serve as directors, except Dr. Dov Joseph, are citizens and residents of the United States. An early meeting of the board of directors of the UIA is being convened shortly to take the necessary formal action to implement this agreement. The Jewish Agency for Israel has already approved the agreement.
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