Wjc to Deal with Arab Boycott

The World Jewish Congress Executive meeting here for two days last week set up a committee to counter Arab boycott activities. This was the first meeting of the newly-elected Executive under the chairmanship of WJC President Dr. Nahum Goldmann. The Executive decided to form a special committee to deal with the Arab boycott under the chairmanship of Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the North American Section of the WJC.

Other committee members are Arthur Hertzberg, a WJC vice-president, and Philip Klutznick, chairman of the WJC board of governors, for the U.S.; Lord Fisher for Europe; Sol Kanee, WJC treasurer, for Canada; and Yitzhak Korn and Ezra Shapiro for Israel. This committee’s task will be to advise the Jewish communities on this issue which the WJC regards as a matter of top priority and to coordinate the actions of the various WJC-affiliated communities.

The Executive also discussed Israel-diaspora relations and problems of Soviet Jewry. In seeking ways to implement the resolution of its plenary assembly which met recently in Jerusalem, to create a framework for Israel-diaspora relations, the Executive resolved to discuss various proposals with the Israel government and the World Zionist Organization. The meeting authorized the convening of a panel of scholars and experts to discuss the subject.

The WZO was represented at the meeting by Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency treasurer and chairman of the WJC General Council, and Shapiro, Keren Hayesod chairman and a WJC vice-president. Others who participated in the two-day meeting included WJC vice-presidents Sam Norich, Dr. Joachim Prinz and Hertzberg, of the U.S., and Shapiro; Gregorio Swigon, Kanee, Klutznick, Bronfman, Dulzin, Lord Fisher and Korn.