Siegfried Ullman, the late American Jewish industrialist and philanthropist, was reinterred today at Rehovot Cemetery. In a ceremony attended by Mr. Ullman’s widow and children, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir and hundreds of mourners, Meyer Weisgal, chairman of the executive council of the Weizmann Institute, paid tribute to Ullman’s generosity. The Weizmann Institute’s Center of Life Sciences was donated by Ullman and bears his name.
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