The Coordinating Institute of the government and the World Zionist Organization will convene here April II under the chairmanship of Premier Menachem Begin, it was announced by WZO chairman Leon Dulzin. It will be the first meeting since the Likud-led government took office and the main subjects on the agenda will be the Soviet Jewry drop-out problem and Jewish education overseas.
The WZO Executive named its representatives to the Institute. They are Dulzin, Raphael Kotlowitz, Akiva Levinsky, Moshe Krone, Avraham Schenker, Ebi Eyal, Raya Yagblom, Max Fisher, Charlotte Jacobson, Frank Lautenberg, Jerold Hoffberger and Michael Sacher.
Dulzin told the Executive meeting that he has consulted with Begin on the drop-out problem–Jews leaving the Soviet Union who opt to go to countries other than Israel. He said Begin accepted his idea to establish a world center in Israel for Jewish education in the diaspora.
He said the center would be operated jointly by the WZO, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the universities and Jewish educational institutions overseas. The Coordinating Institute will also discuss the division of functions between the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Absorption. A Jewish Agency committee is presently reviewing a plan presented last month by Absorption Minister David Levy.
The WZO Executive continued to discuss the results of the last World Zionist Congress held here in February and appointed a committee to implement the resolutions adopted at the Congress.
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