News Brief

Consolidation of the Zionist health agencies in Palestine was recommended and determined upon at the short Wednesday morning session of the Zionist Congress here. A budget of £162,000 for health work was approved, including £115,000 for the Hadassah, American women’s Zionist organization, in charge of hospital and medical work in Palestine, and £47,000 for the Laborite sick benefit funds. These proposals were contained in the resolutions of the health committee introduced by M. Brutzkus (Continued on Page 4)

Although these recommendations were approved by the Congress, it appeared likely that the matter will again be submitted to a vote at the Thursday session, in view of a point of order raised that there was no general vote take. Mr. Brutzkus objected to this contention, declaring there was no minority report on the matter.

The chairman, Dr. Leo Motzkin, drew the attention of the committees to the fact that according to Congress rules, the resolutions have to be drafted in Hebrew as well as in English and German, the languages understood by most of the delegates. The failure of the committees to provide Hebrew texts of the resolutions may lead to contests over their legality under the Congress rules, he said, noting that only English and German texts were submitted.

The session was then adjourned until late in the afternoon in order to provide an opportunity for the party leaders and the Zionist Executive to continue their negotiations for the Agency vote and the composition of the new Executive.

Tuesday night, Dr. Weizmann proposed a list for a new Executive, Mr. Harry Sacher having agreed to enter a coalition. Dr. Weizmann’s proposal was to re-elect the present Executive, with one member each from the Right and Left wings, or a coalition with one of the wings, and to include Dr. Arthur Ruppin.