Leon Levite, former president of the Zionist Organization in Poland, died here at the age of 67. He was the head of the Palestine Office in Warsaw till the outbreak of the war and also the founder and president of the Polish-Palestine Bank in Warsaw. He came to Palestine in 1939 and settled in Tel Aviv.
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