Dr. Izidor Shalit, one of the last surviving delegates to the First World Zionist Congress at Basle, died here last night after a long illness. He was 83. Dr. Shalit had served as secretary to Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, for a number of years.
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