Credit: Almog Burstein.
The late Uzi Geller, Israeli champion (1971) and member of the Israeli chess olympiad team (1972), had passed away at the age of 93, as I was notified by the Israeli Chess Advancement Center, managed by Almog Burstein. Burstein's email added a link to a long obituary (in Hebrew) in a blog by those who knew him well.
Geller is typical of his time: he lived in a kibbutz all his life, and got his start in chess in the "glory days" of the communal settlements' chess "boom" of the 1950s and (especially) 1960s.
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