Robert Szold, a prominent New York lawyer whose activity in the Zionist movement began during World War I, died here yesterday at the age of 88. Szold, a Harvard Law School graduate in 1912, assumed the presidency of the Zionist Circle in 1915 and was a member of the Zionist Commission to Palestine in 1919. He also became the first Jewish Administrator of Jerusalem, a post to which he was appointed by Lord Allenby, the British Administrator for Palestine.
He served as chairman of the Zionist Organization of America/from 1930-31 during which time he drafted the Certificate of Incorporation of the Palestine Endowment Fund which helps support and maintain the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was a life member of the Jewish National Fund, vice-chairman of the Jewish Agency in 1931 and a founding member of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs in 1939. Szold was born in Streator, III, and attended Knox College before entering Harvard. He held honorary degrees from Brandeis University and the Hebrew University.
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