Prime Minister Eshkol presided at a Cabinet-Jewish Agency “coordinating committee” meeting here this afternoon at which Jewish Agency leaders demanded that certain government spokesmen and agencies stop trying to undermine the Jewish Agency’s existence. They referred specifically to press reports of requests by the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Agriculture that the Jewish Agency’s settlement department be liquidated and its functions transferred to the government. Settlement, along with immigration, are among the Jewish Agency’s principal activities.
The upshot of the meeting was acknowledgement by the Cabinet members present that “stone-throwing against the Jewish Agency must cease.” Aryeh L. Pincus, Jewish Agency chairman said that the agency cannot make the most of the re-awakening of world Jewry after last June’s war if the government creates an atmosphere of distrust. The Agency-Cabinet committee will meet again Sunday afternoon.
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