Shmuel Ussishkin, a member of the Jewish National Fund Directorate, died here last Thursday at the age of 79. He was the son of Menahem Ussishkin, a founder of the Russian Zionist movement and president of the JNF in the 1920s. Shmuel Ussishkin was a member of the Hachsharat Hayishuv Directorate, the World Zionist Organization Directorate and the Zionist Congress Court, in addition to the JNF. He immigrated to Palestine in 1919 after studying law at Odessa and Cambridge. He was the author of a number of legal books and articles and lectured at the Tel Aviv University School of Law and Economics before the establishment of the State of Israel.
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