Aharon Nethanel, chairman of the board of directors of the General Tire and Rubber Co., Ltd., and president of the Maccabi World Union, died here over the weekend. He was 55 years old. During the past few months he had been engaged in preparations for the fifth Jewish World Olympics, to take place here next month.
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