Haifa Mayor Moshe Fleiman died Friday at the age of 68. He was operated on for lung cancer in 1972 and since then had been frequently in and out of hospitals. Last week he was taken to the Rothschild Hospital where he died. Born in Stanislawtchik, Ukraine, he joined the Zionist youth movement at the age of 13 and later became an active member of the then illegal hechalutz movement in the Soviet Union. Mr. Fleiman was arrested twice for his Zionist activities and exiled in 1929 to Siberia.
In 1930 he was expelled from the Soviet Union and came to Palestine where he worked in the Palestine Electric Corp. as an unskilled laborer. He gradually rose to the rank of director of the company and was subsequently elected to represent management in its negotiations with the workers. He was elected to the Haifa Town Council in 1950, was elected Deputy Mayor in 1955 and Permanent Deputy Mayor in 1959. He was appointed mayor in 1968 after Mayor Abba Khoushi died.
A passion play with anti-Semitic overtones opened this weekend in the village of Tegein, in the heavily Catholic southeastern part of Holland. The play, written 40 years ago by the Roman Catholic poet-priest Jacques Schreurs, will run through July. Some 50,000 visitors are expected to attend.
A new kosher restaurant was opened in the town of Bacau, in Rumania, which has a Jewish community of 1600. It is the tenth kosher restaurant in Rumania. The others operate in Bucharest, Yassi, Timisoara, Cluj, Arad, Oradea, Galati, Botosani, and Dorohol.
Icelandic Premier Olafur Johannesson was among the many guests who attended a reception in Iceland last week marking Israel’s 25th anniversary. Israeli Ambassador Moshe Leshem was also present.
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