The Jewish community ordinance has finally been ratified and its text published in the Official Gazette. The ordinance is signed by Ben Zvi and Meyuchas Solomon on behalf of the Vaad Leumi and is approved by High Commissioner Chancellor.
It provides for an elected assembly of 71 members, the same number as the old Sanhedrin, the elections to be held within a month after the publication of the ordinance. All registered Jewish men and women 20 years of age or more are entitled to vote, all over 25 knowing how to read and write Hebrew are entitled to be elected. The government has withdrawn the former stipulation regarding citizenship so that any resident in Palestine for more than a year may be a candidate for the assembly.
The Sephardic and Yemenite communities are granted the right of representation in the assembly according to their proportion of the Jewish population and irrespective of the number of electors.
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