A Jewish Agency appeals board has reinstated four out of 10 would be aliya emissaries who were informed last week that they had been rejected only weeks before their departure on assignments overseas. Six other appeals were turned down by the board, which included Faye Schenk, Eli Eyal and Avraham Katz, all members of the World Zionist Organization Executive.
Rafael Kotlowitz, chairman of the Jewish Agency’s aliya department, who headed the board, said the rejection of the six appellants “in no way reflects on the capabilities of these men to fulfill other public functions.” The announcement last week that a screening panel had rejected ll out of 22 prospective emissaries raised a furor in the Israeli press. It came after the candidates had gone through months of training and had successfully passed various tests and screening processes. Several of them had quit their jobs and sold their flats in anticipation of going overseas.
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