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Services Slated for Saul Tukachinsky, Father of Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s UN Envoy

September 17, 1969
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Funeral services have been scheduled tomorrow for the father of Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, who died here yesterday in Mount Sinai Hospital at the age of 75.

Services will be held for Saul Tukachinsky, who had been the head of the Jewish community of Shanghai, China, during World War II and was active in Jewish communal affairs in the borough of Queens, where he lived. Other survivors of Mr. Tukachinsky are a son in Tokyo and a daughter in Brazil.

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