Julius R. Jarcho, a publisher long active in Zionist causes, died Monday at the age of 69. Mr. Jarcho worked in the 1930s for the Jewish Standard of Canada and the Brooklyn Examiner and later became publisher of two Zionist periodicals, Israel Speaks and Israel Today. In 1962-63, he worked in the publications department of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Mr. Jarcho founded the American Friends of Haganah in 1948 and established Materials for Israel, an organization sending supplies to the newly-established State of Israel. In 1949 he became active in Friendship Train, which collected 3000 tons of foodstuff that was presented at City Hall to Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Elath.
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