Jewish Agency for Palestine
- Jewish Agency for Palestine
Jewish Agency for Palestine
['dʒuːɪʃ'eɪdʒənsi fɔː 'pæləstaɪ
n;
englisch »Jüdische
Vertretung für Palästina«], kurz
Jewish Agency ['dʒuːɪʃ'eɪdʒənsi, englisch], Abkürzung
JA [dʒeɪ'eɪ],
offiziell 1922-48 die Vertretung der »World Zionist Organization« (Abkürzung WZO;
Zionismus) in Palästina; im Mandatsvertrag vom 24. 7. 1922 zwischen
Großbritannien und dem
Völkerbund verankert, beriet sie die britischen Mandatsregierungen (u. a. A. Eban) sowie das jüdische Nationalkomitee im
Interesse der jüdischen
Bevölkerung und vertrat diese vor dem Völkerbund sowie (ab 1947) vor den Vereinten Nationen. Seit der
Gründung des Staates Israel (1948) wirkt sie als
Jewish Agency for Israel besonders für die
Einwanderung nach Israel und ist in der jüdischen
Diaspora als zionistische Weltorganisation
WZO-JA besonders im Schul- und Unterrichtswesen tätig. Ihre Büros befinden sich u. a. in
Jerusalem, London,
New York und Paris.
Hier finden Sie in Überblicksartikeln weiterführende Informationen:
Zionismus: Palästina und der Zionismus
Universal-Lexikon.
2012.
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