A joint board representing all Zionist factions in this country has been named to prepare for the election of American delegates to the seventeenth World Zionist Congress which will open on February 5, 1931, according to an announcement issued by Jacob de Haas, chairman for organization of the Zionist Organization of America.
It is expected that a record number of Jews will participate in the elections which will take place the latter part of December. Each three thousand voters are entitled to elect one delegate, according to the rules of the World Zionist Congress.
Every Jew and Jewess over the age of eighteen is entitled to vote upon the payment of what is known as the shekel#ee, which pays for enrollment in the World Zionist Organization. The shekel, the biblical term for a coin, was introduced at the first Zionist Congress at Basle, Switzerland, in 1897 and is designed to permit every Jew to affiliate himself with the movement for the upbuilding of Palestine. A shekel costs fifty cents.
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