Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, disclosed at a press conference here today that the Jewish Agency executive has agreed that no Zionist leader in the Diaspora will be able to retain his position unless he immigrates to Israel.
This stipulation, adopted at the plenary session of the executive attended by American and Israeli members in Jerusalem last week, was in line with the decision to create within the Zionist Organization an elite group of practicing Zionists who will pledge and fulfill their obligation to immigrate to Israel. The new group will be named Brith Olim, Union of Immigrants, Dr. Goldmann said, and will be a non-political, non-partisan organization. It will be accorded special status within the World Zionist Organization and will enjoy greater representation that its numerical strength might ordinarily warrant, he stated.
Dr. Goldman announced that February 25 is the date set for a world-wide conference of Zionist leaders in Jerusalem to “prepare the climate” for the next World Zionist Congress, which will open there June 9. He also disclosed that the Jewish Agency executive decided that aliyah will remain a function of the Jewish Agency, while the Israel Government would take the major responsibility for absorbing immigrants. Dr. Goldmann expressed the hope that the world-wide Conference of Jewish Organizations that he heads will come to embrace more organizations and will deal with more problems than hitherto.
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