The death of Chief Rabbi Yehia Aviad of Yemen was reported here today. Rabbi Aviad was sixty-five.
Samson Ben Eliezer, Hebrew scribe of the fourteenth century, was generally called Baruk she-Amar, from the initial words of the blessing he delighted to repeat.
Joseph d’Aguilar Samuda helped in 1860 to establish the British Institute of Naval Architects.
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