Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 61

3. Mizrachi.—Dr. Abraham Gottesdiener, Lemberg; Jacob Grynberg, Warsaw; Rabbi Dr. Samuel Hirschneid, Bielsko; Abraham Kestenbaum, Tel-Aviv; Sch. S. Schragai, Tel-Aviv; Daniel Sirkis, Tel-Aviv. 4. Revisionists.—Chaim Belilowsky, Tel-Aviv; J. Ben Chorin, Tel-Aviv; Dr. Jacob Damm, Cracow; Aron Propes, Warsaw; Dr. O. Rabinowicz, Bruenn; Ing. M. Scheskin, Warsaw; B. Sternberg,. Czernowitz; Dr. David Wdowinski, Bielsko. 5. Group of Polish Zionists and Radicals.—Dr. Leopold' Plaschkes, Vienna; Samuel Zuchowiecki, Magdiel. 6. Jewish State Party.—Robert Strieker, Vienna. The following were appointed as representatives of the Vaad Leumi : Mr. I. Ben-Zvi and Mr. E. Berligne, as members, and Dr.. A. Katznelson and Rabbi M. Ostrowsky as Deputy Members. The following were appointed representatives of the Board of Directors of the financial institutions in accordance with paragraph 46 of the Constitution : (a) By the Jewish Colonial Trust, Dr. Georg Halpern. (b) By the Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, Mr. Salman Schocken (Berlin) as Member, and Mr. Herman Struck (Haifa), as Deputy Member. (c) By the Keren Hayesod, Dr. A. Hantke (Jerusalem), as Member, and Mr. Leib Jaffe (Jerusalem) as Deputy Member. The following were also members of the General Council : The Chairman of the Congress Court, Mr. S. Gronemann (Paris), and the Congress Attorney, Dr. A. Barth (Haifa). At its first meeting the General Council elected Mr. Leo- Motzkin as Chairman and Messrs. J. Sprinzak, S. Rubaschow, B. Zuckerman, Dr. Mossinson, Dr. J. Rufeisen, H. Farbstein, Dr. N. Goldmann and M. Grossmann as Vice-Chairmen. Unfortunately Mr. L. Motzkin died shortly afterwards, in November, 1933, and the General Council, over which he had presided since 1925 in so exemplary and distinguished a manner, was deprived of his services. In June, 1935, Dr. Schmarya Levin, who had been a member of the General Council for many years and had also served on the Executive, died in Haifa. The members and deputy members of the General Council belonging to the group of the Revisionists resigned their places in the General Council in May, 1935, in accordance with the decision of the World Union of the Zionist Revisionists. Mr. M. Grossmann, at the meeting of the General Council in April, 1934, resigned his office as a member of the Presidium of the General Council. The General Council held three meetings during the period of this report. The first took place immediately after the conclusion of the 18th Congress in Prague. The two ordinary meetings were held in Jerusalem for the first time since the establishment of the 6i