Dr. Saul Syman, director-general of the Israel Health Ministry, and head of the Israeli delegation to the World Health Organization Assembly here, died here suddenly yesterday. He was 54.
The Israeli delegation at the European office of the United Nations and ether Israeli officials on duty here took part today in a memorial service for him.
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