Z.O.A. Executive Wants Zionist Actions Committee to Meet in U.S.

Resolutions urging that the next regular session of the Zionist Actions Committee be held, if possible, in the United States and that the next World Zionist Congress be held as scheduled in 1954, were adopted here last night by the national executive committee of the Zionist Organization of America.

The ZOA executive reaffirmed its opposition to the “double shekel” system for Israel which entitles Israelis to twice as many votes as Zionists in other countries in the election of delegates to the World Zionist Congress. It favored the holding of elections in the United States for delegates to the Zionist Congress.

Rabbi Irving Miller, ZOA president, addressing the 150 members of the national executive, appealed to President Eisenhower “to use the great moral and political force of America toward bringing about an equitable and just peace through direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states.” He emphasized that American Zionists must express as American citizens their “deep regret” that the U.S. Government both sponsored and supported the resolution on the Kibya incident adopted last week by the U.N. Security Council.

Dr. Emanuel Neumann, speaking at the session, reiterated his proposals for the revitalization and strengthening of the Zionist movement including: the initiation of bilateral discussions between the Jewish Agency and the Government of Israel regarding the relationship of the movement and the state of Israel, and the establishment of an American Council for Israel composed of all pro-Israel forces not officially affiliated with the Zionist movement, which will promote concerted action representative of all of American Jewry.