The 18th world Mizrachi conference will open here tonight with 120 delegates from all parts of the world in attendance. Representatives from the U.S. form the largest single delegation. Mizrachi groups in Eastern Europe are also represented at the parley.
One of the chief issues facing the conference is the intra-organizational crisis which has grown out of the tendency to divide the religious-Zionist movement between Mizrachi proper and Hapoel Hamizrachi, the labor wing of the organization. Leaders of both factions in the organization maintain they are striving for unity within the movement.
Israel’s Minister for Religious Affairs, Dr. Judah L. Maimon, will open the parley. A special prayer for the welfare of the state of Israel will then be recited, followed by a eulogy for the late world Mizrachi leader, Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin), who died here recently. Speakers scheduled to address tonight’s opening session include Minister of Immigration Moshe Shapira, Hapoel Hamizrachi leader in Israel, and Leon Gellman, president of the Mizrachi Organization of America.
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