Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 9

Organisation and Administration. A.-ADMINISTRATION. 1. The Executive. At the Eighteenth Congress, which was held at Prague from August 21st to September 3rd, 1933, the following were elected as members of the Executive : Dr. Nahum Sokolow, President of the Zionist Organisation, London. David Ben-Gurion, Tel-Aviv. Professor Selig Brodetsky, Leeds. Isaac Gruenbaum, Jerusalem. Dr. Victor Jacobson, Paris. Eliezer Kaplan, Tel-Aviv. Louis Lipsky, New York. Berl Locker, London. Dr. Arthur Ruppin, Jerusalem. Moses Shertok, Jerusalem. At a meeting of the Executive held immediately after the Congress it was decided that Dr. Sokolow, Professor Brodetsky and Mr. Locker, should take charge of the work in London, and that Mr. Ben-Gurion, Mr. Gruenbaum, Mr. Kaplan, Dr. Ruppin and Mr. Shertok should constitute the Executive in Jerusalem. Dr. Jacobson continued to act as the representative of the Jewish Agency in Paris and Geneva until his unfortunate death, which occurred in Berne on August 23rd, 1934. 2. London Administration. The London Executive have held very frequent meetings during the past two years. They were joined at their meetings on various occasions by Dr Jacobson, as well as by Mr. Ben- Gurion, Mr. Gruenbaum and Mr. Kaplan, who visited London on a few occasions, and by Mr. Lipsky at a meeting in Zurich. President Sokolow and Professor Brodetsky have been in charge of the political work of the Jewish Agency. The affairs of the Organisation Department have been under the direction of Mr. Locker. 3. The London Executive. Shortly after the Eighteenth Congress President Sokolow left for Poland, where he spent a few months, during which he cooperated in furthering the interests of the Zionist movement by addressing a large number of public meetings and Conferences in 9