British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 908

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the resolutions adopted by Congress. The General Council is also a supervisory body to which all executive bodies of the Organisation are subject. For the purpose of dealing on its behalf with urgent matters, the Council has set up a smaller body, consisting of thirty of its members resident in Palestine, known as the 'Inner Zionist Council'.

80. The direction of the Zionist Organisation, the carrying out of the resolutions passed by the Congress and the General Council, and the transaction of day to day business is entrusted to the Zionist executive, which is the chief executive body of the Organisation. The Executive is elected by the Congress and consists at present of the President of the Zionist Organisation and of the sixteen Zionist members of the Executive of the Jewish Agency listed in paragraph 86 below. Of these sixteen members, the following six enjoy only limited rights of voting (i.e., only where. decisions of a certain• nature are involved) :

Dr. Bernard Joseph, Mr. Nahum Goldmann, Mr. Louis Lipsky, Rabbi A.H. Silver,

Dr. M. Sneh,

Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise,

Jerusalem Washington New York Cleveland, Ohio Tel Aviv

New York

The head office of the Zionist Organisation is in Jerusalem; an office is also maintained in London.

81. Election and Composition of the Zionist Congress. Prior to a meeting of the Congress, elections are held of delegates representing each country where there is a Zionist movement; the number of these delegates is fixed in relation to the number of local shekel-holders. The last Zionist Congress, held at Geneva in 1939, was attended by 529 delegates, of whom 134 came from Palestine, 114 from the U.S.A .* 109 from Poland, 29 from Rumania, 15 from England, 14 from South Africa and 8 from Canada. Elections for this Congress were held in 41 constituencies covering 48 countries. The party distribution of the 529 seats of the delegates who actually attended the Congress was as follows;

Delegates %

Workers' Party

General Zionists Group A (centre) General Zionists Group B (conservative) Mizrahi (orthodox religious)

Radical Workers

State Party

Others and non-party

216 143 28 65 s

8 6

41 27

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