Article: Diaspora leaders defer decision on leading Jewish Agency candidates

Larry Yudelson
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
01-26-1995
Diaspora leaders defer decision on leading Jewish Agency candidates.

A key committee of Diaspora philanthropists has postponed a decision on the two candidates who have emerged so far to head the Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization.

Sources close to the process said the committee deferred its decision at the request of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The prime minister has been a staunch supporter of Yehiel Leket, the agency's acting chairman, in the face of opposition from some Diaspora fund-raisers.

The 10-member "advice and consent" committee of the Jewish Agency interviewed Leket and the other candidate, ...

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