Funeral services were held here today for Hanoch Givton, Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles, who died Saturday of an apparent heart attack at the age of 58. He had been admitted to Midway Hospital last Tuesday suffering from pneumonia. Mr. Givton’s body will be returned to Israel for burial.
Before taking up his post here, Mr. Givton had been general-director of Israel’s Tourism Ministry for the previous five years. He was the chief spokesman for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations, with the rank of Minister, in 1968 and 1969. Prior to that, he was with the Israeli Broadcasting Service where he headed its news department in 1950, was promoted to deputy director in 1956 and named director-general in 1960.
In 1945, Mr. Givton joined the Hebrew section of the Palestine Broadcasting Service and organized an underground news service. During the War of Independence he served with a Haganah unit in Jerusalem and as press spokesman with foreign correspondents there. He was a delegate to the UN General Assembly in 1955. Born in Poland, Mr. Givton settled in Palestine in 1935. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Hebrew University and was general secretary of the Palestine Students Organization in 1940-41.
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