Yitzhak Nathani, president of Mapam in Britain and a leading figure in the world Zionist movement and the World Jewish Congress, died here at the age of 75 after a long illness. A pillar of the Jewish labor movement, he was a founder of Mapam’s world movement in 1949. Before World War II he ran a highly successful Yiddish Sunday school for the Workers Circle in the East End of London.
Nathani, who was born in Bessarabia, was steeped in Jewish culture and, after studying first in Berlin, he spent several years in Palestine. In 1931 he settled in Britain where he studied law, becoming an expert on patent law. He served on the World Zionist Organization actions committee and last year was made an honorary member of the General Council of the World Jewish Congress. He was also active in the British Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies.
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