Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 293

organisations in accordance with the number of members in training at the beginning of every year (Tishri). The representative of the Halutz organisation on the Palestine Committee consults with this Council with regard to his activities. (7) The number of members on the Palestine Committee has been fixed, generally speaking, as follows : Central Palestine Office—13; Local Offices—5, 7 or 9 members. (8) The Palestine Committee is to be elected once in two years, to hold office from one Congress to the next, and is to be regarded as constitutional as soon as approved by the Immigration Department of the Agency. (9) Where no election to Congress has taken place in any country, the distribution of places on the Palestine Committee of that country is to be made by the Immigration Department, which will take into consideration the special conditions obtaining. (10) The Palestine Committee may-co-opt representatives of organisations on its sub-committees and on the Palestine Committee in an advisory capacity. (11) All sub-committees of the Palestine Offices, such as the committee for distributing immigration certificates among others than Halutzim, committee for training, etc., are to be constituted in accordance with the rules laid down for the Constitution of the Palestine Committee. Palestine Committees were in accordance with the foregoing formed by the Palestine Offices in the following countries : bos m in È g-s 'achi irkin itine 9- "3 _o A Gene Zion: Mizi " Wc r » 1 Pale; Grou] Revii £ rt CD h^tn Warsaw 2 2 5 2 1 Lwow 4 1 4 2 1 Cracow 4 1 2 1 — Bucharest 4 1 4 3 — Kishineff 3 1 5 1 — Vienna 4 1 2 1 2 Berlin 4 3 3 2 — Prague 4 2 4 2 1 Kovno 1 1 6 3 1 Riga 3 1 5 3 — Antwerp 2 1 2 1 — Danzig 1 1 4 2 — Salonica 4 2 — 2 — Sofia 2 — 2 2 — ■ M-i h ri S o0.2 v 8i5 "S > s.ïï Oi.C «-< r< (U-p ti 5 tc The head of the Immigration Department of the Agency, Mr. I. Grunbaum, and the manager of the Department, Mr. H. Barlas, visited, after consultation with the Jewish Agency in London, the chief centres of emigration—Poland, Roumania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, etc. The General Council which met in April, 1934, approved the rules proposed by the Immigration Department, defining the powers .and the methods of work of the emigration offices in the Diaspora. 293