The American Jewish League for Israel has become affiliated with the newly-reorganized World Confederation of General Zionists, Ezra Shapiro of Cleveland, president of the League, announced at a press conference here following his return from London where he participated in the reorganization of the Confederation.
The stand of the reorganized Confederation for non-affiliation with any party in Israel reaffirmed the basis on which the League was created two years ago, he said. He added that the League was “addressing itself to the generation of younger American Jews, both leaders and workers in every phase of Jewish communal endeavor, hitherto unaffiliated with any Zionist organization, but clearly devoted to the cause of Israel.”
Estimating that no more than one percent of the 300, 000 to 400, 000 American Jews between the ages of 25 and 45 were affiliated with any Zionist group, Mr. Shapiro said that a large number of the present League membership of about 3, 000 were such young Jews. “We have not made resignation from any of the existing American Zionist organizations a condition for membership,” he added, explaining that there are League members who had kept their membership in the ZOA, the Labor Zionist Organization and Mizrachi.
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