The Zionist Actions Committee today concluded its four-day series of sessions with the naming of a new Jewish Agency executive composed of 17 members and three deputy members. Four members and one deputy will serve in New York, while the remainder of the members will perform their duties in Jerusalem. Dr. Nahum Goldmann is president of the Jewish Agency.
The New York members of the executive are Mrs. Rose Halprin, representing the Israel Goldstein-Halprin Confederation of General Zionists; Dr. Emanuel Neumann, representing the Confederation which he heads; Louis Segal, Labor Zionists; Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum, Mizrachi; and Abraham Schenker, Mapam, deputy. A decision of the New York chairmanship was referred to the new executive.
Members of the executive in Jerusalem will be former Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, chairman; Levi Eshkol, Eliahu Dobkin, Aryeh L. Pincus, the new treasurer; and Zalman Shazar, all of the Labor Zionist group; Haim Levanon and Leon Dultzin of the Neumann Confederation; S. Z. Shragai and David Bet-Aryeh, of Mizrachi; Zvi Lurie, Mapam; Aharon Zisling, Achdut Avodah; and Dr. Israel Goldstein, of the Goldstein-Halprin Confederation. The deputies in Jerusalem are Raanan Weitz, Labor Zionists; and Wolf Perry, of the Goldstein-Halprin Confederation.
Dr. Joseph, who resigned, agreed to stay on as treasurer until Jure 1. The posts of heads of the information and external relations departments have not yet been selected, and will be chosen by Mr. Sharett and by Dr. Goldmann.
The Actions Committee adopted a resolution expressing concern with the executive’s financial position “which has prevented the Jewish Agency from effectively discharging its tasks,” and called upon the Jewish communities throughout the world “to intensify their efforts on behalf of Israel.”
Another resolution declared it incumbent upon ali Zionist parties to assure the effectiveness of Zionist federations “so that they may enjoy the fullest practical authority in all-fields constituting basic Zionist program.” The committee also called on territorial Zionist federations to finance their activities from their own resources “to the best of their ability.”
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