A plenary meeting of the Jewish Agency will be opened in Jerusalem on July 1, it was decided here last night at a meeting of the Agency executive.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Agency co-chairman, proposed an agenda for the forthcoming session. Among the questions to be discussed at the meeting will be the future structure of the Agency, problems concerning elections to the World Zionist Congress, the shekel campaign and problems of Zionist parties.
Addressing a press conference in Tel Aviv where he announced the date of the forthcoming Agency plenary session, Dr. George Josephthal, member of the executive, listed five tasks facing the institution. They are:
1. Stabilization and expansion of settlement; 2. Maintenance of youth immigration; 3. Closing of the immigrant work villages and finding a solution for the social welfare cases among the immigrants; 4. Immigration and preparation for immigration; 4. Promoting Zionist education.
Dr. Josephthal reported that the Agency had balanced its 70,000,000 pound budget. He said that the three sources of income for the Agency budget were the United Jewish Appeal drives; reparations payments; and proceeds forwarded by the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization.
Some 65 percent of the budget is spent for agricultural projects, he said, adding; 10 percent goes to youth immigration; 10 percent for the cost of integrating immigrants; five percent for direct immigration costs; four percent to pioneering education and culture; one percent for the support of institutions of higher education; four percent for administrative costs; and one percent into a reserve fund.
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