Nechemia Meyers, veteran journalist

Veteran Israeli American journalist Nechemia Meyers, who was associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science for decades, died of a long illness. He was 79.

Meyers served as publications director and spokesman of the Rehovot-based university for 32 years until his retirement in 1995. He continued as a freelance journalist, writing articles on a wide variety of subjects for Jewish and general publications, many of which appeared in j., until just before his death.

Meyers was born in Minneapolis and moved to Los Angeles before immigrating to Israel in 1951. He spent his first years on a kibbutz, then worked for the Israeli government press office. In 1962 he moved to Rehovot, to take up his position at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Meyers was buried in Rehovot on June 10. He is survived by his widow, Adeerah; a brother, Larry Meyers, of Orange County; three children and seven grandchildren. — ap