Declaring that the current economic and security crises in Israel make the meetings of the Jewish Agency and the Zionist Actions Committee among the most important that have been held since the Declaration of the State of Israel, eighteen years ago, Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairman of the Jewish Agency-American Section, left for Israel yesterday.
The meetings of the Agency, said Mrs. Halprin, “will be held in the shadow of the current economic and security problems now confronting Israel. Not since the days of pre-Statehood has the Agency Executive had to cope with problems of greater magnitude. We will not only have to cut costs through reorganization and other economies, but also will have to find increased sources of income to meet the demands of our programs for aliyah and absorption.
“Both the Jewish Agency, and the Actions Committee, as the top policy making bodies of the Zionist Movement between Zionist Congresses, must make decisions of far-reaching significance. These decisions, particularly in the handling of the immigration and absorption programs, will inevitably seriously affect the development of Israel in the next decade.”
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