Zionist leaders here took exception today to a statement broadcast in America and Britain, to the effect that the majority of Jews in Bulgaria do not desire to emigrate to Palestine. The statement was made by David Jeroham, president of the Jewish Consistory in Bulgaria.
Vitali Haimoff, president of the Zionist Organization of Bulgaria, today declared; “We consider it our duty to announce that Mr. Jeroham had no right to make such a statement on behalf of Bulgarian Jewry. The Zionist Organization of Bulgaria has a membership of 13,000, which is one-quarter of the total Jewish population, and, together with their families, the organized Zionists represent three-quarters of Bulgarian Jewry.
“The large majority of the Jews in Bulgaria have a keen desire to emigrate immediately to Palestine, as they are fully conscious of the necessity for the Jewish people establishing their own fatherland in Eretz Israel. This, and not because they disapprove of the present regime in Bulgaria, is the reason why they want to go to Palestine,” the Zionist leader concluded.
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