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Rabbi Zeev-wolf Gold Leader of World Mizrachi Movement, Dies

April 9, 1956
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Rabbi Zeev-Wolf Gold, noted Mizrachi leader who lived in the United States for many years serving as a rabbi in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Scranton, Pa. died here today after a prolonged illness. He was 67 years old.

Born in Poland he left the U.S. in 1924 to settle in Palestine. He was a member of the Jewish Agency executive since 1947. A co-founder of the Mizrachi Organization of America, he was president of the World Mizrachi Organization for 13 years. His body was placed in Beth Meir, headquarters of the World Mizrachi Organization, where it will lay in state. The funeral will take place tomorrow.

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