Mayor Meyer Dizengoff today announced that one of the streets of this all Jewish city had been named for Dr. Leo Motzkin, noted Jewish statesman, whose body was interred in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem yesterday.
Dr. Motzkin, who was 66 years old, died in Paris November 7, 1933, after a lengthy illness. He was a veteran Zionist leader and was present at every World Zionist Congress, including the first at Basle.
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