Israel Chief Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Yitzhak Nissim appealed for unity of all religious parties in Israel at the opening session last night of the national convention of the Poale Agudas Israel Orthodox labor organization. Rabbi Herzog stressed his desire to see at least the religious workers parties unified.
The theme of unity was also underlined by Benjamin Mintz, chairman of the Poale Agudah world executive, who specifically called on the Agudas Israel leadership to cooperate with the Orthodox workers movement. He pointed out that both Agudah parties have common aims in education of the youth and cultural and religious activities.
Summing up the Agudan laborites’ accomplishments, Mr. Mintz said that the movement sponsored 15 settlements in which 5,000 Jews lived and that four of these settlements were in the “dangerous border areas.” He reported that 1,000 children were enrolled in Poale Agudah schools and urged the Jewish Agency to give the movement the means with which to educate hundreds and thousands more children of Orthodox families. He said that the movement had built 1,000 new housing units in the last few years and was working on 200 more.
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