William M. Landau, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced today the appointment of Maurice Samuelson as the United Kingdom correspondent of the JTA. Samuelson, 40, now a journalist on the Financial Times, was the editor of the London Jewish Observer and Middle East Review from 1967 to 1974. He has worked for the BBC and is a contributor to leading British periodicals on the Middle East and Israel. Samuelson was born in Australia but grew up in Manchester. England. He is a graduate of Oxford University. He is married, with three children. Samuelson succeeds Mark Segal in this post effective March 7.
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