Funeral services were held at the Senhedria Cemetery today for Aryeh Leib Gellman, honorary chairman of the Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi Movement, who died in Tel Aviv last night at the age of 86. Mr. Gellman, who published eight books on Torah studies, was a member of the editorial board of Hatzofe, the Mizrachi newspaper. He represented his movement at Zionist congresses and served as chairman of the Talmudic Encyclopedia and on the board of the Yeshivat Kerem Beyavneh.
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