Dr. Leon Wohlmann, well-known Jewish writer and community leader and one of the founders of the Zionist Actions Committee, governing body of the World Zionist Organization, died here today at the age of 67. Dr. Wohlmann was born in Poland and came to Switzerland as a young man. He was a senior member of the staff of the Israelitische Wochenblatt, a Jewish weekly, in which he wrote prolifically on Zionism and on Jewish life.
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