Sultanik Calls for Larger Partnership Obligations to Israel

Kalman Sultanik, executive vice-president of the World Confederation of General Zionists, asserted that the extent of the obligations involved in the partnership of world Jewry with Israel in terms of financial support will be even larger in the “non-combat period” than was the case during the Yom Kippur War. He added that “Israel cannot afford to wait much longer in solving its outstanding social problems in closing the gaps between its various population sectors. The decline in the rate of giving which set in after the Six-Day War must not be repeated since Israel is now facing the most crucial economic crisis in its history,” he said.

Sultanik, a member of the World Zionist Executive, spoke at a meeting of the National Administrative Committee of B’nai Zion held here under the chairmanship of Rabbi William Berkowitz. He emphasized that Zionists are now duty-bound to inculcate into the minds of the Jewish public the consciousness of the true meaning of partnership with Israel which was cemented by the Yom Kippur War. “Never before was world Jewry so conditioned to respond to the Zionist message and to unified action on behalf of Israel as now,” Sultanik said. “Zionists are now in a position to play a decisive role not only in Zionizing in increasing measure Jewish communities but also to provide a stimulus for uplifting Israel from its somber mood.”