A five-man delegation to the forthcoming World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem was chosen here at a joint session of the West Berlin and West German State electoral commissions of the Zionist Organization in Germany. The delegates, who were candidates on an agreed-upon “unity list” and are not pledged to any political party, are Carl Busch and Heinz Galinski of Berlin, Karl Marx of Duesseldori, Dr. Schabsaj Rubin of Munich and Stefan Schwarz of Straubing, Bavaria.
This is the first time since well before the war that representatives from Germany will attend a Zionist Congress. On the basis of shekolim sold, Germany would normally be entitled to two delegates only. The five-man delegation, which is large for so numerically small a community, was authorized by Jerusalem as an allowance for the fact that the Zionist central authorities barred all Zionist activity in Germany until two years ago. In consequence, only 750 shekolim were asked for the first and 1,500 for each additional delegate. The division into two separate electoral constituencies–West Germany and West Berlin–also favored this interpretation of the electoral regulations.
Following the session of the electoral commission, the Zionist Organization in Germany, the Jewish National Fund and the United Israel Campaign held national conferences in this city. The United Israel Campaign has so far secured pledges of $70,000 and actual gifts of $55,000 in more than a hundred German towns, a sure sign of the gradual consolidation and normalization of the Jewish community in this country. For 1956, a campaign goal of $142,000 was adopted by the United Israel Campaign.
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