Funeral services were held here yesterday for Hyman Bessin, the immediate past president of the Canadian Zionist Federation, who died Sunday at the age of 68. Born in Ottawa, he was the president of the Jewish community there for a number of years until 1961.
Bessin was also, over the years, chairman of the United Israel Appeal in Canada, president of the Canadian Friends of Bar Ilan University and a member of the Mizrachi Executive. At the time of his death he was a deputy member of the World Zionist Organization Executive and a member of the World Executive of the Religious Zionist Movement.
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