Yaacov Hess, a diplomat attached to the Israel Embassy here, died of a heart attack while on a private visit to West Germany last weekend. He was 56.
Hess was born in Germany, He fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 and was wounded. Later he served in diplomatic posts in Bonn, Copenhagen and Houston, Texas. He was responsible for political and information work at the Embassy in Vienna.
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