Carlos L. Israels, former president of the United Hias Service, the Jewish migration agency, died Thursday of a heart attack at New York Hospital. He had been chairman of the Hias National Council at his death. He was 64.
Active in philanthropy for more than 30 years, Mr. Israels was an author and lecturer on corporate and financial law and had served as adjunct professor of law at Columbia University. He had been a director of the Joint Distribution Committee and of the United Jewish Appeal and had served as secretary-treasurer of the United Service for New Americans. He had been treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. He also had been a member of the editorial board of the Uniform Commercial Code of the American Law Institute. Funeral services will be private. A memorial service will be held Wednesday at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
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