Funeral services for Ayre Wallenstein, chief of the Reuters bureau in Israel for 25 years, were held today at the Jewish Cemetery in Geneva. He died Friday in Geneva at the age of 55 after having suffered a heart attack during a vacation in Switzerland last month. His wife Shulamit, was with him.
Mr. Wallenstein, known to his friends as “Wally,” was a fifth generation Jerusalemite. He graduated from the Hebrew Gymnasium and went to Beirut to study medicine. But he was attracted to journalism and joined Reuters there in 1944. From 1945 to 1948 he covered the events leading to the establishment of the State of Israel. Mr. Wallenstein covered Israel’s four wars with the Arab states and was the only foreign correspondent to witness the execution of Adolf Eichmann.
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