Paul Philippson, president of the Central Consistory of Belgium, the main Jewish religious organization in the country, died here yesterday at the age of 76. Philippson, who headed the Consistory for 15 years, had served as the president of the Brussels Jewish community before that. He was also president of the Belgian section of the Israel Bond Organization and a vice president of the Jewish Colonization Association. Philippson was the descendent of an illustrious family. Both his grandfather and his father, Frantz and Maurice, had also served in their turn as presidents of the Belgian Consistory.
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