Funeral services will be held here this week for Ted Lurie, editor of the Jerusalem Post, who died in Tokyo of a brain hemhorrage last night at the age of 64. He had suffered a stroke May 24 while in Tokyo attending the international Press Association Conference and remained in a coma until his death at the St. Lucas international Hospital there.
Mr. Lurie, a pioneer of the Israeli press, was born in New York and graduated from Cornell University in 1930. He settled in Palestine that same year and Joined the staff of the English language daily Palestine Post when it was founded in 1932. During World War II he served as the paper’s military correspondent with Allied forces in the Western Desert and served in various editorial capacities after 1948 when it was renamed Jerusalem Post. In 1955 he was named acting editor, replacing the paper’s founder and editor Gershon Agron who was elected Mayor of Jerusalem. He became editor-in-chief on Mr. Agron’s death in 1959.
Mr. Lurie also served as Associated Press Jerusalem correspondent and as Israel news correspondent for the Central News Agency, the News Chronicle of London and the Columbia Broad casting; System. in recent years he broadcast Israeli news four times a week on radio station WEVD in New York. He was also a former editor of the Hebrew daily Zmanim, a co-founder of the Israel Journalists Association and ITIM (Israel News Agency), a member of the Israel Committee of the international Press institute, a former president of the YMHA Association and chairman of the Jerusalem branch of the Israel-Japan Society.
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