The annual Shekel roll call of American Zionists is this year being coupled with a petition to Great Britain “to resist the infringement of Jewish rights, whether by violence on the part of Arabs or by a wavering attitude and political concession on the part of the Mandatory Government,” it was announced today.
The call to sign this petition has been issued by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Zionist Organization of America, and other Zionist leaders.
The Shekel enrollment will conclude May 28 and all those properly registered will be entitled to a ballot in the elections for American representatives to the Twentieth Zionist Congress which election day has been set for Sunday, June 20. Five hundred thousand registrants are being sought. Samuel Markewich is chairman, Leo Wolfson, executive vice-chairman and Samuel M. Schmidt, executive secretary of the United States Central Shekel and Election Board.
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