Bracha Oshratt, the Consul for Information at the Israel Consulate here, was killed in an automobile accident Friday while on a speaking tour in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Consulate announced today. She was 43 years old.
Born in Haifa, Oshratt was a graduate of the Reali High School in that city and held Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in Arabic language and Islamic culture from the Hebrew University. She joined the Foreign Office in 1960 and was appointed consul in the summer of 1981. She appeared frequently before Jewish and non-Jewish organizations as a speaker on the current Middle East situation.
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