A recommendation that the next world congress of Agudas Israel be held in Jerusalem, in the summer of 1961, was adopted here last night at a meeting of the American section of Agudah’s world executive. The organization held its last world congress in 1954. The decision to convene the next world session in Jerusalem is still to be confirmed by the Israeli and European sections of the organization’s world executive.
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