Representation at the next World Zionist Congress will no longer be based on the shekel system, Zvi Lurie, member of the executive of the World Zionist Organization, announced at a press conference here today.
Discussing proposals for changing the “double shekel” system which gave Israel twice as much representation for each membership token sold to a Zionist party member, Mr. Lurie said that in the future Israel’s representation will be held down to 40 percent of the total, while the American Zionist movement’s delegation will increase from 23 to about 30 percent.
Mr. Lurie further announced that delegates from 14 Zionist federations in Europe and North Africa would meet in Amsterdam January 31, 1959. For the first time, observers representing Zionists in Spain and Portugal would be present.
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