Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Jewish Agency executive member, and Gottlieb Hammer, executive director of the Agency in New York and president of the American-Israel Shipping Company, left today for Israel to participate in the meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee opening in Jerusalem Aug. 23rd. The Actions Committee is the supreme governing body of the World Zionist Organization between world congresses.
While in Israel, Mr. Hammer will meet with a group of American bank executives arriving there early in September. He will conduct the party on an extensive survey of Israel industrial, commercial and maritime enterprises and projects of the Jewish Agency, which is in charge of the country’s mass immigration and colonization programs.
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