The World Zionist Organization Executive voted 9-1 today to hold the next World Zionist Congress during the last week of February, 1978. Yitzhak Navon, chairman of the Zionist General Council, said he would convene the Council’s presidium in two weeks to discuss the recommendation. The 29th World Zionist Congress was to have opened here Jan. 17. But a ruling by the Congress Court last year that elections must be held for delegates forced a postponement.
Joseph Klarman, head of the WZO’s aliya department, who cast the only negative vote, had submitted a proposal of his own to schedule the Congress for August, 1977. He claimed there was no reason why it could not be held three months after Israel’s general elections on May 17. Klarman’s motion was defeated 8-1. WZO and Jewish Agency Treasurer Leon Dulzin, abstained. Yosef Almogi, chairman of the WZO and Jewish Agency Executives, was absent from today’s meeting because of illness.
It was also announced today that the Zionist General Council would meet next summer, a few days before the annual conference of the Jewish Agency General Assembly.
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