A resolution urging the Jewish Agency not to negotiate with the British unless Jewish statehood is made the basis of negotiations was adopted here by the 23rd annual convention of Hapoel Hamizrachi of America. The religious-labor Zionist group demanded that all of Palestine be declared a Jewish state.
The delegates, who elected Rabbi Dr. Simon Federbusch as president for the coming year, approved another resolution calling for a $100,000 campaign to establish a Hapoel Hamizrachi Bank in Palestine.
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