Binyamin Peled, a former JTA correspondent, died Sunday in Israel at the age of 91. Born in New York, Peled graduated from Yeshiva University before emigrating to Palestine in 1935. In addition to JTA, Peled also worked for The Palestine Post and a number of foreign wire services, covering the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel and the country’s first decades.
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