A memorial project of international scope to perpetuate the memory of Ezra Z. Shapiro, president of the World Confederation of United Zionists who died in Jerusalem last Saturday at the age of 74, will be presented at the meeting of the World Confederation Executive in Jerusalem on June 21, it was announced here today by Kalman Sultanik, executive vice-president of the Confederation. Special memorial services will be held on the Shloshim by all constituent bodies of the Confederation in the United States, South America and the Far East, he said. The World Confederation is a non-party Zionist umbrella organization in this country whose major constituents are Hadassah, Bnai Zion and the American Jewish League for Israel.
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