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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Marver
Bernstein, 70, the former
president of Brandeis Univer-
sity, and his wife, Sheva, 68,
were among those who died
March 1 in a fire at the
Sheraton Hotel in the Cairo
suburb of Heliopolis. Sixteen
people perished in the blaze.
The Bernsteins, who kept a
home in Jerusalem and one
in the United States, had
flown to Cairo to join a tour
of Egypt, with a visit to the
Nabatean archeological re-
mains in Petra, Jordan,
organized by the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington.
Bernstein, who received his
doctorate in political science
at Princeton University, serv-
ed in several academic posts.
He was dean of the Woodrow
Wilson School of Interna-
tional Relations at Princeton.
He served as president of
Brandeis from 1972 to 1983.
Shortly after the establish-
ment of the State of Israel in
1948, Bernstein was invited
by the new government to ad-
vise it on the establishment of
its public services and to draw
up plans for the office of state
comptroller.
Following his retirement on
pension from Brandeis, Bern-
stein continued an academic
association with Georgetown
University in Washington.
Born in Mankato, Minn., he
was the author of three books,
including one titled The
Politics of Israel, and the co-
author of another work. At
the time of his death, he was
professor of political science
at Georgetown University.
Sheva Bernstein, born in
St. Paul, Minn., was an
economic statistician. Both
held various lay leadership
positions with the Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of
Greater Boston.
Ya'acov Tsur,
JNF Veteran
(JTA) — Ya'acov Tsur, a
distinguished Israeli
diplomat and fomer chairman
of the Jewish National Fund,
died last week. He was 84.
Tsur was born in Vilna, the
son of a well-known writer
and journalist, Shmuel Czer-
nowitz. He came to Palestine
in 1921.
After graduating from the
Hebrew High School in
Jerusalem, he attended the
University of Florence, Italy,
and embrarked on a career in
journalism.
During the 1930s, Tsur was
employed by the JNF, for
whom he traveled extensive-
ly abroad.
When Israel declared its in-
dependence in 1948, Tsur
joined the new nation's
foreign service. He subse-
quently was Israel's am-
bassador to Uruguay, Argen-
tina, Paraguay and Chile.
In 1953, he was ambassador
to France. He actively
assisted the mass immigra-
tion of North African Jews to
Israel by way of France, and
helped establish the Franco-
Israeli alliance and special
relationship, which lasted un-
til the 1967 Six-Day War.
Despite President Charles
de Gaulle's imposition of an
arms embargo on Israel, Tsur
developed warm personal
relations with him.
He was awarded the coveted
Legion d'Honneur.
Tsur assumed the chair-
manship of JNF after retiring
from the Foreign Service.
I NEWS
Court To Hear
New Evidence
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
High Court of Justice has
agreed to consider new
evidence which might sup-
port the alibi of convicted
war criminal John Demjan-
juk, who was sentenced to
hang two years ago.
It is scheduled to hear his
appeal on May 14.
Demjanjuk's Israeli
defense lawyer, Yoram
Sheftel, will interview a
witness in West Germany
before trying to corroborate
the claim that Demjanjuk is
a victim of mistaken identi-
ty.
The Ukrainian-born
former automobile worker
from Cleveland was found
guilty by a Jerusalem
district court in 1988 of
responsibility for the deaths
of hundreds of thousands of
Jews between 1942 and
1943, when he was a guard
at the Treblinka death
camp. His brutality earned
him the moniker "Ivan the
Terrible."
Demjanjuk, 69, claims he
was a German prisoner of
war at the time.
Sheftel said he learned
only in December of a West
German woman, Josefine
Dolle, whose testimony
might give credence to that
claim. Dolle, 70, was a clerk
at the German military
camp in Heuberg.
Dolle's evidence does not
include photographs of Dem-
janjuk, nor does she claim to
have known him. But she
can testify that there were
Red Army defectors at the
camp at the time Demjanjuk
says he was there.