A meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive and a seminar of campaign leaders sponsored by the Agency’s recently created fund-raising committee were held here this week. A Jewish Agency spokesman said the Executive gave special attention to immigration, with emphasis on Soviet Jews and to the 1973 budget. Also discussed was the next General Assembly of the Jewish Agency, scheduled to be held in Jerusalem Feb. 5. It will be the first regular session of the 300-member body since its inaugural meeting last year.
The spokesman said the budget discussion “was only a preliminary discussion. We have not yet gotten down to framing the budget.” He said it was clear, nevertheless, that given the demands of increased immigration and absorption and even allowing for larger proceeds from fund-raising, “there will still be a certain gap between the needs and the available resources.”
Among the Jewish Agency leaders attending the Executive meeting were Louis Pincus, Chairman of the Executive, Leon Dultzin, Treasurer, and Moshe Rivlin, Director General of the Jewish Agency, all from Jerusalem. American members attending were Max Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors; Edward Ginsberg, past chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee; Paul Zuckerman, current UJA chairman; and Mel Dubinsky, a UJA leader and member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The seminar of campaign leaders was also attended by members of the Jewish Agency Executive and 65 fund-raising leaders from the U.S. and other countries and representatives of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Paris and London. The seminar was chaired by Ginsberg and Michael M. Sacher, chairman of the London Board of the JTA.
A combined paper on “The Role of the JTA in Campaigns” was presented by Sacher, Samuel J. Goldsmith, London Editor of the JTA; Edwin Eytan, JTA European Bureau Chief. Participants in the discussion included Alfred Zemmour, Secretary General of the Paris JTA Daily News Bulletin, and Michel Topiol, President of the French UJA and member of the JTA Board of Directors in Paris.
Summing up the seminar, Rivlin noted that the Jewish Agency’s fund-raising committee was established last year “to encourage cooperation between the campaigns in the various countries of the diaspora and to enable an exchange of experience as well as ideas between them.”
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