President Zalman Snazar and Education Minister Zalman Arrane attended funeral services here today for Shlomo Dickman, prominent writer and translator, who died here at the age of 48. A native of Poland, Dickman arrived in Israel five years ago. A member of the Hebrew Language Academy, he translated Virgil, Sophooles and other classics into Hebrew.
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