World Zionist Congress

The World Zionist Organization elects the officers and decides on the policies of the WZO and the Jewish Agency,[2][3] including "determining the allocation of funds.

[3] Any Jew over age 18 who belongs to a Zionist association is eligible to vote, and the number of elected delegates to the Congress is 500.

[2] In addition there are about 100 delegates which are appointed by International Organizations (e.g. B'nai B'rith, see below) affiliated with WZO.

Until 1946, the Congress was held every two years in various European cities, save for interruptions during the two World Wars.

The late left-wing leader Shulamit Aloni on several occasions criticized this practice, stating that "Most Israeli citizens neither know nor care that when they go to the polls they are among other things also electing delegates to the World Zionist Congress.

The Second Zionist Congress , held in Basel , Switzerland (1898).
Participant card for the first Zionist congress in Basel, Jewish Museum of Switzerland . [ 1 ]
Basel Street in Tel Aviv ( c. 1939 ) named in honor of the first Congress of 1897
12th Zionist Congress, Carlsbad 1921
16th Zionist Congress, Zurich 1929
20th Zionist Congress, Zurich 1937
23rd Zionist Congress, Israeli postal stamp
25th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem, 1960