The Jewish Agency executive met today to study five principal issues in connection with the forth coming 25th World Zionist Congress, to open here December 27.
The first will concern the Congress agenda and speakers. With non-Zionist delegates in attendance for the first time, the Congress will have to reflect the fact that it will represent practically the entire Jewish people, and will therefore have to deal with both Zionist and general Jewish problems.
The second task will be the approval of the invitation to the non-Zionist fraternal and associate delegations. The third will be authorization to the Jewish Agency executive to invite American non-Zionist delegations with which negotiations for participation in the Congress are not as yet completed.
The fourth task will concern a meeting of the American Jewish Agency. Inc,, which will meet for the first time in Israel to approve the Agency’s budget for the second half of the current fiscal year. The fifth task will be clarification of the relationship of the fraternal and associate Jewish organizations with the local Zionist central bodies in each country.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Agency, told the executive plenum that the next meeting of the Conference of Jewish Organizations, and the first in Israel, will be held in Jerusalem simultaneously with the World Zionist Congress.
Dr. Goldmann said that the conference meeting will begin preparation for the projected world convention on Jewish education, and will work on the establishment of a permanent organizational framework for the conference. He also described efforts in recent months at setting up a single representative body for American Jewry.
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