The Jewish Agency executive today decided to open its plenary session here on July 11. In the meantime, Eliahu Dobkin, executive member, came forth today with a suggestion that the Zionist movement should be reorganized from its “present philanthropic character” to “an active movement for the realization of Zionist aims and national education in the Diaspora.”
Mr. Dobkin, in a statement to the press, said the problem of reorganizing the Zionist movement should be taken up at next” month’s meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee. He emphasized that what Zionism needs today is a movement that can stimulate general immigration and also immigration of Jewish youth to Israel.
As a method of executing the changes he has in mind, Mr. Dobkin suggested that the present system of elections for the World Zionist Congress be changed to give mandates not only on the basis of membership in national Zionist groups but also on the basis of a specific country’s contribution to immigration to Israel and in proportion to its efforts in behalf of national education. It is this type of work, he added, that is necessary in order to combat the trend toward assimilation “which has hit hard among the Jewish youth throughout the world.”
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