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The
Zionist Century - Concepts - Zionist Congresses
The Thirty-Third Zionist Congress
Amidst a feeling of achievement,
the approach of the Centenary of the First Zionist Congress - and the Jubilee
of the State of Israel - is marked by the escalation of processes of diversification
and conflict within Israeli society. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
- the unacceptable and violent face of developments - creates political
uncertainty; the ruling Labor Party loses the General Election to the Likud
and the Oslo Process becomes ever more unstable.
While Diaspora Jewish organizations within the Zionist movement now
exercise 50% of the vote in the Jewish Agency and similarly the WZO [through
the now operative Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education], Israel
finds itself less central to the overall Diaspora agenda. The Zionist
leadership and intellectuals across the different streams attempt to analyze
or define the nature and role of Zionism at the change of the millennium.
The principle of religious pluralism figures high on the agenda of the
religious streams; however, it took a concerted effort and much adroit
negotiation by Chairman, Avraham Burg, to arrive at a form of acceptance
on this complex issue.
All
the resolutions of the 33rd Congress
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