Leon Dulzin was unanimously elected acting chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive yesterday by the Agency’s Board of Governors. Max M. Fisher, chairman of the Board, announced that Dulzin’s election must be ratified by the global convocation of Jewish communal and Zionist leadership who will meet here June 25 for the annual Jewish Agency Assembly.
It is expected that Dulzin, until now Jewish Agency treasurer and twice-acting Agency chairman, will be confirmed at the Assembly. Last month he was also elected chairman of the World Zionist Organization.
Fisher also announced that Irwin Field of Los Angeles and Sylvia Hassenfeld of Providence, Rhode Island, have been elected Governors. Field also has been elected general chairman of the 1979 United Jewish Appeal Campaign, which begins next month. Hassenfeld, president of the UJA National Women’s Division, is the first woman ever elected as a Governor.
Melvin Dubinsky, president of the United Israel Appeal, explained that Field and Hassenfeld were being elected as UJA representatives on the Agency Board as part of an overall increase in the size of the Board of Governors from 42 to 48 members. In announcing Dulzin’s election, Fisher said; “As Israel enters her 30th year of independence, we welcome the election of my good friend Leon Dulzin as Jewish Agency Chairman, His election symbolizes our striving for excellence to help assure the enduring bond between the Jewish people and Israel.”
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