News Brief

The death of Dr. Lee K. Frankel was characterized yesterday as “overwhelming” by Leroy A. Lincoln, vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who had been an associate of Dr. Frankel. “Dr. Frankel was an international figure in health work and disease prevention,” Mr. Lincoln declared.

Julius Simon, president of the Palestine Economic Corporation, of which Dr. Frankel was one of the founders, wired Mrs. Mark Rafalsky, Dr. Frankel’s daughter, that he was “shocked and grieved over the death of your dear father. His fine public spirit, his great experience and his deep interest in the affairs of our company made him one of its foremost leaders and his untimely death will leave a gap which will be painfully felt”.

In a statement issued yesterday by the Zionist Organization of America, the passing of Dr. Frankel was mourned “as a severe blow to the manifold endeavors in Jewish communal life in which he was a leading spirit. Trained as a chemist and endowed with the vision of the true social worker, it was perhaps inevitable that he became vitally concerned with the synthesis in Jewish life that is arising out of the recreation of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.

“He was chairman of the American section of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission and was a leading factor in the acceptance of that commission’s report which led directly to the creation of the Council of the enlarged Jewish Agency for Palestine in Zurich two years ago. Only eight days before his death he was elected co-chairman of that Council at its second meeting held in Basle.

“His vision, his wisdom and his great ability will be sorely missed.”