Shulamit Aloni, who left the Labor Party to form the Civil Rights Party which now has four Knesset seats, has joined forces with the Labor Party again for the forthcoming World Zionist Congress. Aloni’s group, with seven delegates to the congress, signed an agreement this week with the Labor Zionist Movement for a joint list to the congress, it was announced by Yitzhak Koren, the movement’s secretary. Koren, who reported this to the Labor Executive which met to discuss the movement’s platform for the congress, also announced that although the Zionist General Council (Actions Committee) approved a clause last month to forego elections to the congress in countries where 90 percent of the factions represented in Zionist Federations are agreed on the number assignment of delegates for each faction, 14 of the 21 Zionist Federations with hold elections. These include the Federations in Great Britain. Australia. Franc. Argentina Sweden and Canada. There will be no elections in the U.S., he said.
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