Sima Arlozoroff, a chemist and radio executive and the widow of Haim Arlozoroff, died here last night at the age of 75. Born in Estonia, Mrs. Arlozoroff was an assistant to the late Chaim Weizmann at the Sieff Institute which became the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth. She later became an executive on Israeli Radio until her retirement a few years ago.
Mrs. Arlozoroff’s book about her husband, who was one of the leaders of the Yishuv, is awaiting publication. Haim Arlozoroff was a leader of the Labor Party and head of the World Zionist Organization’s department for foreign relations, when he was murdered outside his Tel Aviv home in 1933. Mrs. Arlozoroff, who witnessed the murder, identified two suspects as the killers. Three members of the Revisionist Party were charged with the killing but were acquitted. Later, two Arabs said they killed Arlozoroff but their admissions were not accepted.
Arlozoroff’s murder was long a source of controversy between Labor and the Revisionists and continues to this day to occasionally flare up in public disputes.
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