Funeral services were held in Gedera Sunday for Dr. Wolfgang Von Weisel, a writer, medical doctor and co-founder of the Zionist Revisionist movement who died Thursday night at the age of 78. Born in Vienna, where his father was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, he himself served in and was wounded in World War I. He came to Palestine in 1922 and was an instructor in the early Hagana officers’ training school in 1924.
Dr. Von Weisel was a prolific writer for foreign and Hebrew newspapers including the now defunct Israeli daily, “Haboker.” He was a disciple of Vladimir Jabotinsky and when the latter defected from the World Zionist Organization, helped found the Zionist-Revisionists, predecessor of the present day Herut Party. Dr. Von Weisel retired from political activities when the Israeli State was founded and served during the 1948 War for Independence as an artillery officer. He was wounded in a battle near Beersheba. During the latter years of his life he directed a hospital for the chronically ill in Gedera.
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