Solomon Teff was a solicitor and the president of the

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from 1964 to 1967. He was a member of the Hove Hebrew Congregation in Brighton and Hove. Teff became acting president of the Board of Deputies upon the death of Abraham Moss and was succeeded by

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. In 1964, as head of the Board of Deputies he spoke before the Twenty-Sixth Zionist Congress praising

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who migrated to Israel. Teff died in 1979.

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