Led by the Reform movement, the three largest religious streams garnered most of the votes in the American Zionist elections. ARZA/World Union, the Zionist arm of the Reform and Reconstructionist movements, won 61 delegates. This was the combined number won by the Conservative movement’s MERCAZ USA, which won 32 seats, and the Orthodox-supported Religious Zionist Movement, which took 29.
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