Benzion S. Hersch has joined the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, according to an announcement received here Friday from Mr. Jacob Landau, managing director of the agency, who is at present in Johannesburg, South Afria. Mr. Hersch will serve on the board of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in London and the Palestine Telegraphic Agency in Jerusalem. He is one of the founders of the Zionist movement in South Africa, prominent in Zionist leadership and a well-known journalist. He will proceed with Mr. Landau to Palestine in the early autumn.
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