1923

January 15-17
The Actions Committee convenes in Berlin to discuss the subjects on the agenda of the forthcoming Zionist Congress. Dr. Weizmann reports on settlement activity in Eretz Israel and London. There is much resentment at the meeting due to a delay on the part of the British mandatory authority in Palestine in ruling on the political and legal status of the National Council. Towards the end of deliberations, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a member of the Executive, drops a bombshell: he announces his resignation due to Weizmann's reconciliatory line, especially with regard to everything relating to the separating of Transjordan from western Palestine by the British. He claims that the policy of the Executive might well result in failure for the Zionist movement and for activity in Eretz Israel.