Jacob Kenner, veteran Zionist and founder of the Labor Zionist youth movement in Galicia, died last night at his home near Ramat Gan. He was 70 years old. Until the outbreak of World War II he lived in Poland where he had been the editor for many years of Der Yiddisher Arbeiter, official organ of the Zionist Labor movement.
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