After 30 years service in the Zionist movement, during which he interested many leading Jews, including Lord Melchett, in Zionism, Israel Cohen is retiring from the central office of the World Zionist Organization.He has been general secretary of the organization since 1922 and is the author of a number of books on Zionism.
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