A budget fo 84,500,000 pounds ($118,300,000) ### work of the Jewish Agency in 1953 was approved yesterday by the finance commission of the Zionist Actions Committee, supreme organ of the Zionist move### between sessions of the World Zionist Congress.
The body’s immigration commission voted today to abandon the principle of ### “immigration in favor of “productive” immigration and to raise the age ### free entry from 35 to 40 years. This will principally affect immigration from North Africa.
The Actions Committee wound up its general debate in plenary sessions today ### into the committee stage of its deliberations. The entire participation in the session today proceeded to Rehovoth for ceremonies at the grave of Dr. Chaim ###, where a wreath was placed in the name of the committee.
### joint meeting of delegates of Hadassah, American women’s Zionist ###, and the Women’s International Zionist Organization (Wizo) Mrs.###, of New York, warmly endorsed suggestions that American Zionists### play a greater role in the life of the American Jewish community. “Ha dassah ### all other American Zionist groups in its membership precisely ### of its participation in a large variety of American Jewish communal ###,” she said.
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