Dr. Emanuel Neumann, veteran American Zionist leader, was honored tonight at a dinner marking the conclusion of his 25th year as member of the Executive of the WZO and the Jewish Agency for Israel. It also marks his planned retirement from that office. The dinner was attended by 100 Jewish leaders, representing all aspects of Jewish communal life.
Dr. Neumann has been an active Zionist for over fifty years since his youthful days when he was a founder of Young Judea. He is the founder of the Theodor Herzl Institute, the Herzl Press and the monthly Midstream. One of his most conspicuous services to Zionism was rendered in the fall of 1947, when he took an active part in the presentation of the Jewish case before the United Nations at Lake Success.
As a member of the Jewish Agency Delegation to the United Nations, he negotiated with representatives of governments and helped to bring about the adoption of the resolution on the partition of Palestine on November 29, 1947. In the course of his long and varied career as a Zionist, Dr, Neumann organized the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod) and served as its first national director.
He also launched the United Palestine Appeal in 1925 and later served as president of the Jewish National Fund. Since 1957, he has headed the World Union of General Zionists. Now an honorary president of the Zionist Organization of America, he was its president in 1947-48 and from 1956 to 1958. He has been the motivating force behind the publication this year of the two volume Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel.
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