A demand that the Jewish Agency be liquidated as a hold-over of the British Mandatory Government was voiced here last night by Yohanan Bader, Herut deputy in the Knesset, at the opening of a world Herut-Zionist Revisionist conference preceding the World Zionist Congress. Mr. Bader, one of 34 Israeli delegates to the conference, which is also being attended by 30 other delegates from 15 countries, urged the abolition of the shekel system of voting for delegates to the World Zionist Congress.
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