The remains of Nahum Sokolow, late president of the World Zionist Organization, were reburied today in the cemetery on Mr. Herzl. Mr. Sokolow’s remains arrived here from England where he died in 1936.
Present at the religious ceremony today were President Itzhak Ben Zvi, members of the Israel Cabinet, Speaker of the Knesset Joseph Sprinzak, members of the Israel Parliament and delegates to the Zionist Congress. Prof. Joseph Klausher, only living veteran of the first Zionist Congress, delivered the eulogy.
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