Delegates to the annual convention of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel approved a resolution today calling on the Government and Jewish Agency to give the association an equal voice in the planning and the implementing of all programs for immigration from the United States and Canada,
At the same time the delegates called on the World Zionist Organization to extend to the association a special invitation to attend WZO meetings as an affiliate. The delegate said this request was justified by the fact that non-Zionists head been participants and that such an Aliyah-oriented group as their association should also be involved.
Another resolution called for widening knowledge of American and Canadian Jewries in view of the “increasing gulf of misunderstanding” between the Israeli and American Jewish communities. Mrs. Ruth Bokstcin was elected national president. Publication of a book, “On the Soil,” on American and Canadian farm settlements in Israel was announced during the convention.
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