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Zionist Council. The result was the formation of a new Zionist Executive of 19 members comprising eight General Zionists, seven members of the Palestine Workers' Partv and four members of Mizrahi. One deputy member, a General Zionist (Mr. M. Kolodny) was elected a deputy member with a right to vote on immigration matters. At the first meeting Mr. David Ben Gurion was elected chairman. The following is a list of members of the present Zionist Executive :-

Mr. David Ben Gurion Mr. Moshe Shertok Mr. Eliahu Dobkin Mrs. Golda Meyerson Mr. Eliezer Kaplan Mr. Haim Gruenberg Dr. Moshe Sneh

Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver Mr. Emmanuel Neumann Mr. Itzhaq Gruenbaum Dr. Nahum Goldman

Mr. Berl Locker

Mrs. Rose Halperin Professor Zelig Brodetsky Rabbi Yehuda Fishman Mr. SWomo Shragai

Mr. Moshe Shapiro

Mr. Fritz Bernstein

Deputy Member:

Mr. M. Kolodny

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The latest World Zionist Congress, held at Basie in December, 1946, was attended by 385 elected delegates in addition to other (ex officio) members. The following were the principal countries represented :-

Go'Untry

United States of America Palestine

No. of delegates 121

Latin America

79 23 16 JG 14 12 11 JO

Germany Poland Rumanie Hungary Canada

Great Britain South Africa France

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