British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 917

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number of members should be 71 (the number of the 'Sanhedrin', the Supreme Rabbinical Court at the time of the Second Temple). Accordingly, the second and third Elected Assemblies of 1925 and 1931, respectively, consisted of 71 members, but, in" view of the increase in the number of electors which had taken place in the thirteen years' interval between the third and fourth elections, the number of members was increased to 171 in the Assembly of 1944.

(iii) The General Council of the Elected Assembly (Vaad Leumi). The members of the Elected Assembly elect a General Council of forty members. This General Council appoints from its members an executive committee consisting at present of eleven full members and three in an advisory capacity. The Council administers the lay affairs of the community in accordance with the resolutions of the Elected Assembly and acts through its executive committee as the representative of the community in its relations with the central Government.

The names of the present members of the Executive Committee of the General Council, together with their party affiliations, are as follows:-

Full Members.

Mr. I. Ben Zvi, M.B.E.,

President, Mr. David Remez, Chairman, Mr. A. Katznelson,

Mr. Joseph Spr-inzak,

Mr. M. Shatner,

Rabbi M. Oetrovekv,

Mr. E. Berl igne,

Mr. S. Z. Shragai,

Mr. A. Zisling,

Mr. M. Oren,

Dr. G. Landauer,

Advisory members.

Dr. N. Nir,

Rabbi Raphael As Sheikh, Dr. M. Soloveitchik,

Palestine Labour Party. Palestine Labour Party. Palestine Labour Party. Palestine Labour Party. Palestine Labour Party. Mizrahi (Orthodox Zionists). General Zionists.

Mizrahi Workers.

Ahdut Avoda.

Hashomer Hatzair (Socialist). Aliya Hadeaha (New

Immigrants) .

Poale Zion (Leflr Wing Socia.lists).

Yemenite.

Community Director of Education.

The President and Chairman of the Executive Committee are also President and Chairman of the Elected Assembly and the General Council.

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