We keep forgetting that not everybody plays chess. Moshe Roytman notes that in 1975, Tel Aviv's municipal government sent a letter to "Mr. Emmanuel Lasker" in Ha'yarkon St. 54, warning him that he must repair his dilapidated house. The address, of course, was that of the Emmanuel Lasker club, not that of "Mr. Lasker," who died in 1941. (In any case, it should be Dr. Lasker.)
The report adds - on what authority we do not know - that Lasker "planned to settle in the country" (i.e., Israel / Palestine) despite the (correct) fact that he never managed to even visit it. It also adds, less accurately, that Lasker died "more than 40 years ago," which would mean before 1935.
Source: Ma'ariv, 2.9.75, p. 17.
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