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Article: FOCUS ON ISSUES: WZO-Jewish Agency merger idea now seems a foregone
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- June 27, 1995
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Uriel Masad
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
06-27-1995
FOCUS ON ISSUES: WZO-Jewish Agency merger idea now seems a foregone. conclusion
The slogan on the sturdy blue-denim bags that delegates to the Jewish Agency Assembly here were carrying around this week may have seemed more like a wish than a reality.
It read: "The Jewish People: Moving Forward Together."
Yet moving together is precisely what the two major organizations that represent the Israel-Diaspora partnership seem to be doing.
Although many of the details have yet to be worked out, it appears to be a foregone conclusion that by 1997 -- on the centennial of the founding of the Zionist movement by Theodor Herzl -- the World Zionist ...