Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Shoshana Persitz, a member of the first three Knessets and for many years head of the Tel Aviv municipality’s education department, who died here yesterday at the age of 76. Mrs. Persitz, a daughter of the Zionist leader Hillel Zlotopolsky, was born in Kiev and came to Palestine in 1925. She founded the “Omanut” publishing house which specialized in classics and educational books and periodicals. For a time she headed the Knesset’s education committee.
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