Mrs. Halprin Named Acting Chairman of Jewish Agency in New York

Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization and chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, today appointed Mrs. Rose Halprin, Hadassah leader, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency executive in New York during his absence from the United States. The appointment was made at a meeting of the newly-elected executive of the World Zionist Organization.

Joseph Sprinzak, Mapai leader, was unanimously named today president and chairman of a 14-man presidium of the Zionist Actions Committee. The presidium will name directors of the Jewish National Fund and of the Keren Hayesod. It will make decisions until the next plenary session of the full 100-member Zionist Actions Committee which will be held next winter. One of the first decisions adopted by the presidium today was to establish a settlement in Israel named for Louis Lipsky, veteran American Zionist leader.

At today’s meeting of the World Zionist executive, under the chairmanship of Dr. Goldmann, it was decided that the executive should hold weekly plenary meetings. For reasons of efficiency, however, two sub-committees were elected to work in Israel and abroad. In the event the decisions of the two sub-committees are not unanimous, a plenary meeting of the executive will have the final word.

The executive devoted a part of its meeting to the question of the distribution of portfolios among executive members. The General Zionists insisted on having one of their members as the head of the Organization Department of the executive a post which has been held for years by the Mapai. Negotiations over, this request are being conducted, with Dr. Goldmann acting as a mediator. The General Zionists threaten to leave the executive it they do not get the portfolio.