Liberal Group Sweeps To Win in World Zionist Vote
Source: The Jewish Daily Forward
he Reform movement won a plurality of votes for American representation in the 37th World Zionist Congress.
Of the 145 seats allocated to Americans in the 500-representative body, approximately 70 percent went to religious denominations: Fifty-six seats went to the Reform movements ARZA faction, 25 went to the Conservative movements Mercaz faction and 24 to the modern Orthodox religious Zionist faction, known as Mizrachi.
The remaining American seats went to factions affiliated with the American Forum of Russian Speaking Jewry (10), progressive Zionists (8), the right-wing Zionist Organization of America (7), the young activist Alliance for a New Zionist Vision (7), and a smattering of smaller parties representing Sephardim, environmentalists, and others that captured the eight remaining seats.
The 190 delegates from Israel are allocated according to the latest Knesset elections, and the 165 delegates from the rest of the Jewish world are chosen in a variety of ways, including elections that are still underway.
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