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NEWS
Sharon Asks Reform Figures to Help Him Elect Jewish Agency
Chairman
By G. Lazer and ITIM
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to bypass the Likud Party
by contacting Reform organizations to nominate Zeev Bielsky
as chairman of the Jewish Agency.
The Reform organizations agreed to select him as their
nominee. Informed observers say Labor will back the
nomination if promised good executive positions in the Jewish
Agency, including chairman of the Jewish National Fund.
On Sunday Likud Worldwide chose Natan Sharansky as its
candidate for Jewish Agency chairman. On Monday evening the
court began hearings on an appeal by three Likud Worldwide
activists demanding Sharon be prohibited from interfering in
the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency. But it seems that he
will be able to present Bielsky as a candidate, one way or
the other.
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