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Josef Fraenkel

London (JTA) — Josef
Fraenkel, a leading Zionist,
biographer of Theodor Herzl
and an internationally
known journalist, died recent-
ly at age 84.
Mr. Fraenkel, who for some
20 years was the London cor-
respondent for The Detroit
Jewish News, was regarded as
the foremost authority on
Herzl's early life and as a
storehouse of Jewish
memories. In 1938, as Jewish
Telegraphic Agency cor-
respondent in Prague, Mr.
Fraenkel reported the Nazi
invasion of Czechoslovakia
and its immediate effect on
the Jewish community there.
He was a member of the
Zionist Revisionist move-
ment, but broke with its
leader, Zeev Jabotinsky, when
the latter seceded from the
World Zionist Organization in
1935. Instead, Mr. Fraenkel
supported the moderate Revi-
sionist Meir Grossman,
founder of the Jewish State
Party, which remained inside
the WZO fold.
A founder of the World
Union of Jewish Journalists,
Mr. Fraenkel was born in
Ustryzki, Poland, grew up in
Vienna and fled to
Czechoslovakia after the
Anschluss in 1938, only to be
confronted again by Nazi in-
vaders. After the fall of
Prague, he came to England,
with the help of JTA's London
correspondent, Samuel
Goldsmith.
He spent more than 30
years working for the British
section of the World Jewish
Congress. He founded the
Association of Jewish Jour-
nalists in London and edited
an anthology of writings by
Austrian Jews.

Jack Lafer

Jack Lafer, a retired phar-
macist and a current residen-
tial real estate developer, died
Jan. 7 at age 66.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Lafer was graduated from
Wayne State University's
school of pharmacy in 1946.
He opened Lafer Drugs in
Detroit, then in Fraser, and
retired from pharmacy three
years ago.
In 1972, he started a
development company call
Stoney Creek Investors,
residential real estate
developers. His company own-
ed apartments in
Washington, Mich., and
Kalamazoo. He was a member
of Craftsman Lodge of the
asons.
e leaves his wife, Frances;
Kerry; two daughters,
ary (Marlene Lafer)

Sherman and Mrs. Lawrence
(Dr. Leslie Lafer) Smith; a
brother, Sidney; a sister, Mrs.
David (Florence) Goldberg of
Miami Beach, Fla.; and four
grandchildren.

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M. M. Merzon

M. Manuel Merzon, an at-
torney for 60 years, died Jan.
8 at age 90.
Born in Russia, Mr. Merzon
lived 72 years in the U.S. He
received a B.A. degree with
honors from the University of
Michigan and was graduated
from the Detroit College of
Law.
Mr. Merzon was a pioneer
in the effort to obtain finan-
cial reparations from the Ger-
man government on behalf of
local Holocaust survivors. He
was a staunch Zionist and a
founder of Herut Revisionist
Society of Detroit. He was a
friend and supporter of
former Israel Prime Minister
Menachem Begin.
In the 1940s he published a
magazine, The Detroit Jewish
Review, and it existed until
the Second World War ended.
He was a weekly columnist
for the New York weekly
Jewish Press. He was an ac-
tive supporter of Young Israel
of Oak-Woods, the Kollel In-
stitute, Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah and Akiva Hebrew
Day School.
He is survived by his wife,
Rebecca; a son, Melvin S. of
Skokie, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs.
Robert (Bonnie) Torgow; six
grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.

Thelma Shwedel

Thelma Shwedel, a member
of Jewish communal
organizations, died Jan. 12 at
age 76.
Born in Pennsylvania, Mrs.
Shwedel was a member of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Hadassah and B'nai B'rith
Women.
She leaves a son, Marvin; a
daughter, Mrs. Barry (Carol)
Kline of Niskayuna, N.Y.; a
sister, Sara Evelyn Smith;
and five grandchildren.

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Likud Acts
To Bar Kach

Jerusalem (JTA) — Likud
acted Jan. 5 to ban Rabbi
Meir Kahane's extremist
Kach party from running in
the Knesset elections next
November.
Deputy Minister Ronni
Milo disclosed that Likud will
ask the Central Elections
Committee to reject Kahane's
list.

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