President Izaak Ben Zip, every member of the Jewish Agency executive here, members of Parliament, and the Acting Mayor of Jerusalem attended the funeral service Friday for Berl Coraline, for a quarter of a century chief correspondent in this country for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Prime Minister David Ben Guion sent a special representative to represent his office at the services.
Mr. Coraline’s remains lay in state outside the headquarters of the Press Club here, many hundreds of leading Israelis filing by to pay their last respects. In a eulogy by Kalman Shanghai, head of the Jewish Agency’s immigration department, Mr. Coraline was lauded for “his responsible and objective journalism, as doyen of the foreign press corps and representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.” Another eulogy was delivered by Benn Feller, a member of the PTA staff here.
Hundreds of messages of condolence have been received by the Coraline family from members of Israel’s Cabinet, senior officials of the Government, and other leading Israeli and non-Israeli personalities here and abroad.
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