Menu JTA Search  Itzhak Tabenkin, Veteran Zionist, Dies at 82
Itzak Tabenkin, veteran Zionist and labor leader who co-founded
Histadrut, the Achdut Hasvoda Party and the Palmach, died this
morning of a blood ailment at the age of 62. At his bedside was
Minister-Without-Portfolio Israel Galili, a close friend.
Tabenkin was hospitalized here three days ago. Premier Golda
Meir expressed deep sorrow at his death and praised him as a
great man of Israel. Mr. Tabenkin, who was born in Russia,
founded Kibbutz Ein Harod, where he lived, and was a member of
the Knesset from 1949 to 1951, representing Mapam.