Rabbi Moshe Blau, leader of the Agudas Israel in Palestine, has died in Massina, Italy, it was reported here today. He was 61 years old.
Rabbi Blau was heading an Agudah delegation en route to the United States when he contracted peritonitis aboard the Rumanian vessel Transylvania. He was taken off the ship at Messina.
He last visited America in 1940 when he went there to enlist the aid of American Jewry in helping the Jews of Europe and Palestine.
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