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Former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek Dies


[BBC News] Teddy Kollek, who served as Jerusalem mayor from 1965 until 1993, died Tuesday at age 95. Theodor Kollek was born in Austria-Hungary in 1911, grew up in Vienna, and left for British Mandatory Palestine in 1935. In 1952 Kollek became chief aide to Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, a position he held for 12 years.
2007-01-02 01:00:00
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