The election of Gottlieb Hammer, executive director of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, as president of the American Israeli Shipping Company, Inc., was announced today in a cable received from the Zim-Israel Navigation Company of Haifa.
The American Israeli Shipping Company is the American representative of Zim, Israel’s largest shipping company and operators of the Israel America Line. This regularly scheduled Israel-flag service between Israel and North America was established in 1949, and offers complete facilities for the transportation of passengers and cargo.
Mr. Hammer will retain his present responsibilities at the Jewish Agency. His assumption of the presidency of the American Israeli Shipping Company, he pointed out, reflects the continuing interest of the Jewish Agency in the Zim-Israel Navigation Company of which it was one of the founders and in which it is a major stockholder.
A senior officer of the Jewish Agency for the last 15 years, Mr. Hammer is a native of Brooklyn and was educated at Boys High School and Long Island University. After varied experience in banking, insurance and accounting, he served as assistant director of the Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939-40 and subsequently as comptroller of the Jewish National Fund before joining the Jewish Agency in 1941. He is a director of a number of companies and public institutions and is a member of the Bankers Club of New York.
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