Mrs. Rivka Sapir, widow of the late Pinhas Sapir, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives, died here this week of cancer at the age of 54. The Sapirs were married in 1974, two years after the death of the former Finance Minister’s first wife, Shoshana, who also succumbed to cancer. Sapir died of a heart attack in the summer of 1975.
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