Funeral services attended by thousands of mourners including Cabinet Ministers, members of the Knesset and senior Government officials, were held here today for Dr. Leo Kohn, political adviser to the Foreign Ministry, professor of international relations at the Hebrew University and author of Israel’s proposed draft constitution, who died here Saturday at the age of 67.
Born in Frankfurt, Dr. Kohn settled in Jerusalem in 1925 and served as political secretary to the Jewish Agency from 1934 to 1948. He was named political adviser to the Foreign Ministry when the State was established in 1948, receiving the rank of Ambassador ten years later. He has been the Weizmann Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University since 1953.
At yesterday’s Cabinet session, Acting Premier Levi Eshkol paid warm tribute do Dr. Kohn, who was also eulogized at funeral services by Interior Minister Moshe Shapira and by former Premier and former Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
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