Reorganization of the Keren Hayesod committee in various countries, to include non-Zionists as one-half of their membership, was decided upon at a conference of the Keren Hayesod directors held here today under the chairmanship of Oscar Wasserman, member of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency. Suggestions to be presented at the next session of the Jewish Agency administrative committee were discussed. In order to create a parity of Zionists and non-Zionists on the directorate of the Keren Hayesod, which is the fund collecting organ of the Jewish Agency, it was decided to elect Dr. Bernard Kahn and Mr. Visser of Holland. Other members are to be named later.
It was decided to ask members of the Jewish Agency Council to see to it that separate collections, besides those of the Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund, are not conducted. It was also determined to discontinue the Palestine Emergency Relief Fund here and to begin the campaign of the Keren Hayesod. The results of the relief campaign are considered satisfactory. Dr. Arthur Hantke, Leib Jaffe, Bernard Feiwel, Isaac Naiditsch, Dr. Georg Halpern, Aaron Barth, Dr. Bernard Kahn, Leo Hermann. Willy Dreyfus, Leo Simon and Kurt Blumenfeld participated in the session.
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