Samuel Horelick, prominent Jewish philanthropist, active for many years in national, overseas and local Jewish causes, died yesterday at his winter home in Florida. He was 75. Born in Russia, Mr. Horelick, who came to this country in 1906, graduated in 1912 with the first engineering class of the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Mr. Horelick was a member of the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee, a director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and a trustee of Monte-fiore Hospital here. From 1953 to 1955, he headed the local drive for Israel bonds, which sold more than $1, 000, 000 worth of these investments. He was responsible for the establishment of the Samuel Horelick library at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, at Haifa. He was a treasurer of the United Jewish Foundation here, a trustee of the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh and president of the Hebrew Institute.
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