Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 19

workers for intellectual and technical training for Palestine, viz. :■— the Artisans' Associations, " Hechaluz Baalei Malachah " and " Haoved," and the Agricultural Workers' Association " Haklai ". —the first-named being connected with the Zionist Federations and the two Others being affiliated to the Labour Party. The Student Unions and Youth Organisations in the western countries which are outside the party camps, as well as the Youth groups of the Women's organisations (Junior Hadassah and Junior WIZO) are devoted to purely educational tasks. It may here be mentioned that the " Kartell juedischer Verbindungen," which was the training ground of several generations of German Zionists, has transferred its headquarters to Palestine. The athletic organisation " Maccabi " has undergone considerable expansion. The Maccabiad organised by it for the second time in the Spring of 1935 has already become a national institution. The Executive is assisting in trying to bring about co-operation between the " Maccabi " and the Labour Athletic Association " Hapoel." Particularly gratifying is the progress of the Youth movement in the English-speaking countries, where the question of winning over the new generation to Zionism is a problem of particular importance and difficulty. 2. The development of the Youth movement will in the future need more intimate fostering on the part of our central bodies. Despite the inevitable social and ideological differences, it is hoped that, with goodwill on the part of all concerned and with the requisite apparatus available, it will be possible to bring about a cordial fraternisation of the various youth groups. The two large women's organisations, the " WIZO " and the Hadassah, have to record a period of industrious activity. Reference will be made here only to the relations of these two bodies to the Zionist Organisation. The Executive of the " WIZO " has requested the Zionist Executive to devise an arrangement that would enable it to enjoy constant and close co-operation with the Executive. As a result of negotiations a joint Co-operation Committee of the Executive and the WIZO has been formed in London for mutual information, which meets for periodical discussions. The Palestine Executive has allowed the WIZO to be represented in the Advisory Councils of the Executive (for immigration, for the settlement of German Jews, etc.), and agreed to other arrangements for mutual information. The American Women's Organisation, Hadassah, concluded an agreement in October, 1933, with the Zionist Organisation of America, whereby the relations of these two bodies to one another have been placed upon a new basis. A joint committee has been formed to deal with matters of common interest, and a change has been made in the representation of each of these bodies in the committees of the other. The Executive has taken note provisionally of the agreement thus concluded. So far as the closer 19