The treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel “very strongly” urged the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today to join other American Zionist groups in forming the proposed American Zionist Federation. The call was issued by Leon Dulzin, on the eve of his departure for South America to meet with Latin American Jewish leadership in connection with a proposed reorganization of the Jewish Agency.
The ZOA has until now declined to participate in negotiations leading to organization of an American federation which was mandated by the last World Zionist Congress. Jacques Torczyner, ZOA president, said recently that the organization’s National Executive Committee felt participation would “inevitably impair, curtail and lead to the liquidation of the traditional functions and activities of the ZOA.”
In South America, Mr. Dulzin will meet on the Jewish Agency reorganization question with Jewish leaders of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Central American countries. The plans calls for separation of the World Zionist Organization from fund-raising aspects of the Agency and its expansion to include non-Zionist fund raising leadership throughout the Diaspora. The plan is expected to be formally ratified at a meeting of the Zionist General Council (Actions Committee) in Jerusalem in February.
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