Problems concerning the world Zionist movement and the participation of individual non-Zionists in the Jewish Agency executive will be discussed at the plenary session of the Jewish Agency which opens here tomorrow.
Addressing a press conference today, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, denied reports that he demands the abolition of parties in the Zionist Organization. However, he emphasized that he favors a territorial structure. He also denied that he allegedly proposed the admission of non-Zionists into the Jewish Agency on a “fifty-fifty” basis. At the same time, he pointed out that “there is a problem which nobody can escape–the main income, whether from the United Jewish Appeal or from the sale of Israel bonds, does not come from Zionists.”
Dr. Goldmann did not offer any concrete plan on the admission of non-Zionists into the Jewish Agency. The proposal, which will be discussed here, must first be decided upon by the Jewish Agency executive, later by the Zionist Actions Committee and finally by the World Zionist Congress. Dr. Goldmann, who advocates the admission of individual non-Zionists, proposes to invite several non-Zionists to the next World Zionist Congress.
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