A plenary meeting of the Jewish Agency executive approved today a 374,000,000-pound–about $125,000,000–budget for the 1963-64 period. The budget draft was presented by Treasurer Aryeh Pincus.
The meeting also heard a report from Dr. Nahum Goldmann on the most recent meeting of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and of the Conference of World Jewish Organizations for Jewish education, both meetings having been held in New York.
Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, urged the Zionist movement to exploit the awakening to Jewish values in countries outside of Israel and to rally the masses of Jewry to fill their lives with Zionist content. Stressing the need to inject new blood in the Zionist federations, Mr. Sharett proposed a 50-50 composition of federation leadership of party representatives and personalities of non-party organizations. Young leaders should be found to bear responsibilities and these cannot come from all parties, he stated.
Mrs. Rose Halprin, chairman of the American section of the Agency, submitted a detailed analysis of the latest developments regarding the American Zionist Council. Zvi Lurie, member of the Agency executive, presented a series of proposals for strengthening the territorial federations and supported Mr. Sharett’s view for the representation of non-party personalities in the leadership.
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