Zvi K. Wacksman, journalist and vice-president of the Palestine Pioneers Foundation, a Revisionist institution, died here last night of a heart attack. He was 48.
Wachsman was an associate of the late Revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, with whom he served in the Jewish Legion in World War I. He was the author of a number of books in Yiddish, Hebrew and German. His body will be removed for burial to New York where he lived since 1940.
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