Yosef Almogi newly elected World Zionist Organization chairman, was elected Friday head of the WZO aliya department by the Zionist Executive. Meeting immediately after the Zionist General Council closed, the Executive elected Almogi to the aliya post which had previously been held by chairmen Louis Pincus and Pinhas Sapir. At the Executive session. Almogi’s first as WZO chairman, he said that being chairman of the Zionist organization was “the greatest honor I have had in my public career.”
Meanwhile, Leon Dulzin has announced his formal resignation as acting chairman of the Jewish Agency. Officials said an Agency board of governors meeting would be convened in Jerusalem this week to elect Almogi Agency governor and would be followed by an Agency Executive meeting which would elect him Agency chairman.
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