Dr. Benjamin Benari, Hebrew educator and author, and a leader in the Labor Zionist movement, died here on Friday at the age of 59. Dr. Benari had been administrative assistant at Seward Park High School in New York City. He was born in Poland, where he attended the Mir Yeshiva before coming to the United States with his family in 1922. He joined the Labor Zionist youth movement in 1932, and later held executive posts in the LZOA and the Farband-Labor Zionist Ord
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