Participation in the Jewish Agency will be one of the important questions to be discussed at the forthcoming World Congress of the Agudath Israel Organization to be held in September, Jacob Rosenheim of Frankfurt, chairman of the Political Executive of the Agudath Israel, said, addressing the Agudath Israel Youth Organization here yesterday.
The pre-requisite for such participation, he declared, is that the Keren Hayesod should abstain from furthering cultural institutions, among which are included a number of non-religious institutions, leaving this work for other bodies to do, and confining itself to economic and colonization activity in the Holy Land. That would open up a possibility for close co-operation in the economic field. Both the Agudath Israel and the Zionist Organization, Mr. Rosenheim said, have learned from past experience that working separately it is practically impossible to carry on a large-scale colonization work in the Holy Land, and that successful economic up-building work can be effected only by the unification of all Jewish forces.
Mr. Rosenheim made a similar announcement at the Polish Agudath Israel Conference held in Warsaw. The question of the entrance of the Agudath Israel into the Jewish Agency, he said there, will be decided at its World Congress. The decision, he said, will be made in accord with the recommendations of the Rabbinical Council of the Agudath Israel, comprising some of the greatest Rabbinical luminaries of the present day.
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