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a special great influence with the Government. They have elected him President of the National Council (Vaad Haleumi) and vice-president of the Local Council (Vaad Hair).

Another well-known Palestinian Zionist is Mr. Joseph Meyuhas. Mrs. Meyuhas and Mrs. David Yellin are sisters. Mr. Meyuhas is a member of the Zionist Executive. He is also the president of the Local Council of the Jerusalem Jews (Vaad Hair). Mr. Yellin and Mr. Meyuhas have been ap-pointed by the Government on a great number of committees and so until the Government has made itself ridiculous and given matter to Jewish satirists and cartoonists to make jokes of this. In Jewish affairs one is always under the impression that things are done by a family government of ardent Zionists, Meyuhas, Yellin, Bentwich and Samuel.

IV

The purpose of Sir Herbert Samuel has from the first day been the for-mation of a politico-religious Jewish Community, which was in fact going to be a Zionist one.

The political Organs of the Community are the National Council (Vaad Haleumi) and the different local councils (Vaadei Hair). The religious organisations are Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem and Rabbinates in other Palestinian towns and villages.

The National Council (Vaad Haleumi) and the local councils (Vaadei Hair) were going to pay for the Chief Rabbinate and sub-rabbinates. To affect this plan, Sir Herbert Samuel recognises only the National Council (Vaad Haleumi) and the different local councils (Vaadei Hair) as representatives of the whole of Palestinian Jewry. He has simply resolved that in every place there shall be only one Jewish Community, viz. the community which works together with the Zionist Organisation. He recognises only the Zionist Rabbinates and he forces the non-Zionist Orthodoxy to accept their jurisdiction. He also intends to bring under their supervision all the chari-table institutions even those which were founded and are being supported by organisations in Palestine and abroad which have religious objections against the Zionist Rabbinate.

The non-Zionist Orthodoxy is simply boycotted. Their advice in Jewish matters is never asked. They are excluded by Sir Herbert Samuel from all official committees and their representatives are the only ones that are not invited to official functions. The non-Zionist Orthodoxy have frequently protested against this attitude. They asked liberty for the non-Zionist Jews to organise themselves without the influence or interference of the Zionist

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