Cooperation and Struggle: Rethinking the Impact of the American Zionist Leadership on the Twenty-Second Zionist Congress

[...]several of Weizmann's erstwhile supporters who opposed Ben-Gurion decided to cooperate with Silver. [...]of Weizmann's intervention, Stephen Wise, who headed the Emergency Committee and was Silver's political rival, agreed to accept Silver as his co-chair.12 The Emergency Committee was formed on September 19 by the Zionist Congress in response to the fear that the various Zionist centers would lose contact with one another and the desire to concentrate political activity in the United States. According to the Zionist constitution if the Congress do not decide who would be the next president the decision should be made by the Zionist General Council immediately after the Congress. [...]of the events of the summer of 1946—Black Saturday at the end of June, the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July, and the meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive in Paris in early August—the Zionist Executive ceased its protest activity against the British.