Itzhak Triwaks, prominent Israel journalist, who came on a visit to Canada in the interests of the Encyclopedia Hebraica, died from a heart attack here while stepping out of a taxi. He was 60 years old.
Born in Poland, he contributed to the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Warsaw and later started publication of a weekly. “Alt-Neuland,” devoted to acquainting Polish Jews with life in Palestine. In 1930 he settled in Palestine. He came to the United States several months ago to promote the sale of the Encyclopedia Hebraica which is now being published in Israel along the pattern of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He is the author of a number of works on Palestine, including a handbook published before the outbreak of World War II.
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