The Jewish Agency executive approved today a radical reorganization and streamlining of its operations, including a probable merger of its immigration and absorption departments.
The decision was adopted by the 17-member executive without opposition. The goal of the reorganization is elimination of the duplication and bureaucracy with which immigrants have to cope, and implementation of the Agency’s budget retrenchment and economy drive.
The decisions, adopted under the chairmanship of Agency executive head Aryeh Pincus, were listed under four headings. One was that the executive found it necessary to introduce complete and far-reaching reorganization of its work by reducing the number of its departments through reunification. The second was that the executive is to proceed immediately with its deliberations on general reorganization of its activities.
The third was an announcement that a special subcommittee of the executive would prepare detailed proposals to implement the changes for submission to the plenary of the executive in September. The fourth proposal was that the executive considered it “particularly urgent” to unite all the various arms dealing with immigration and absorption to merge them into one department.
The possible unification of the immigration and absorption departments was understood to involve also the economic department, as well as the Professional and Technical Workers Agency (PATWA) and Committee on Manpower Opportunities in Israel. Other departments dealing with education, youth and pioneering for Israel in other countries also will be submitted to reexamination.
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