The Israeli executive of the World Jewish Congress believes that activities in behalf of Soviet Jewry must be planned and coordinated by a central body. It has approached other organizations with the aim of setting up such a body, it was learned today. Itzhak Koren, a Knesset member and chairman of the WJC’s political committee in Israel, said that divided and uncontrolled activities by diverse groups could be dangerous and could be interpreted in quarters as being a facet of the East-West “cold war.”
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