The World Zionist Executive today adopted a series of proposals designed to intensify activities in the various national Zionist Federations in a special worldwide campaign to be inaugurated at the close of the Zionist Actions Committee meeting which opens here tomorrow. The Agency plenary also concluded its discussion of a budget for the next fiscal year.
Israel Premier David Ben Gurion’s views that the Zionist movement had ceased to have a function, have spread “dismay and confusion” in Zionist ranks, a report of the World Zionist Executive declared. The report was prepared for the meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee, policy-making body of the movement between world congresses, which opens here tomorrow.
On the positive side, the executive noted that through the use of chartered planes and ships, immigration from Egypt, Poland and Hungary had been taken in stride and a new interest in settling in Israel had been evinced in Western countries. The report warned, however, that the groundwork must be better prepared to facilitate this type of immigration.
The report prepared for submission to the Actions Committee revealed that last year saw the greatest influx of professionals among immigrants in recent years. Among the arrivals from European lands were 330 engineers, 315 physicians, 20 agricultural specialists, 38 pharmacists, 64 dentists, 263 economists and lawyers, 477 newspapermen, sociologists and others.
Among last year’s arrivals there were also 4,500 “hard core” cases, including tuberculars and invalids, aged, widows and children. Some 2,300 unskilled workers are absorbed directly in existing kibbutzim.
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