The chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel was expected to announce a new timetable for his departure from office during a meeting in Jerusalem of the agency’s board of governors. Avraham Burg was recently elected to the Labor Party’s list of candidates for the May Knesset elections. Burg was originally going to give up the agency post next January, but the calling of early elections necessitated advancing that date.
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