The Zionist Actions Committee, supreme policy making body between World Zionist Congresses, opened its session here today to discuss proposals basically affecting the future of the Zionist movement and the relations between the Jewish Agency and the Israel Government. The session, which is expected to last until the end of this month, will consider a number of important issues facing the forthcoming World Zionist Congress, which is scheduled to open in Jerusalem at the end of the year.
Characterizing the forthcoming Congress as a “constituent assembly,” which “will shape Zionism in both theory and practice, at any rate for the present generation,” the world Zionist executive body said in a statement that the Congress will be called upon to plan the immigration to Israel of the second million Jews and their integration within the Jewish state.
“The Congress will also plan to mobilize world Jewry and its material resources for the development of the Jewish state,” the statement said. “It will consider ways and means of educating the rising Jewish generation in countries outside of Israel to their national tasks, and it will inculcate Jewish national and cultural values in the people as a whole.”
Z.O.A. DELEGATES NAME SUBSTITUTES FOR MEMBERS WHO RESIGNED
Prior to the opening of the Actions Committee session, the members of the Committee, together with the members of the Jewish Agency, attended a memorial service at the tomb of Dr. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism. The opening of the Actions Committee session was attended by the entire Israel Cabinet. It is understood that Premier David Pen Gurion, who will greet the session in behalf of the government, will not take part in the discussions in view of the fact that the Actions Committee will consider matters concerming Zionist activities outside of the Jewish state.
The Zionist Organization of America delegation to the Actions Committee session decided to ask the praesidium of the committee to recognize three substitutes to replace members of the Z.O.A. who are absent or who have resigned. Rudolf Sonneborn, Fred Monosson and Mendel Fisher were named by the delegation as substitutes.
Meanwhile, the Israel Cabinet today heard a report by Premier Ben Gurion regarding his contacts with the left-wing Mapam Party and with the General Zionists for broadening the existing coalition government. The Cabinet also discussed a development budget prior to submitting it to the Israel Parliament. Various bills concerning labor were also considered at the Cabinet meeting.
The plenary session of the Jewish Agency executive, which concluded its session here today, approved a project submitted by the Jewish National Fund under which 2,500 acres of land in Israel will be allocated to a firm owned by Israel and Jews living in other countries for the purpose of planting citrus groves which will be subdivided into small parcels and sold to private owners. The plan also provides for the use of hired labor on this project, which is a departure from the traditional J.N.F. principle forbidding employment of hired labor on such lands.
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