Military funeral services were held Friday for Gen. Mordechai Makleff, former Chief of Staff, who died last Tuesday in West Germany at the age of 58. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week after suffering a heart attack. On Tuesday he suffered his second, fatal, heart attack. Makleff was in West Germany on a business trip as general manager of the Israel Chemicals Company. The funeral was held at the Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
Makleff was Israel’s third Chief of Staff. After holding that post he was the general manager of the Israeli Citrus Marketing Board, the director general of the Dead Sea potash works and the general director of the Israeli Chemicals Co.
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