Lebor’s parents, Philip and Bessie Lebor, live in Jerusalem, as does his sister, Rina Kaufman.
Lebor was buried in Jerusalem Tuesday at Har Hamenuhot cemetery, following a morning service. The family is not sitting shiva again.
Leon Lebor was born in London, where he attended the Jewish Deaf School. He trained as a furrier and worked in his profession in England before moving to the United States in 1970.
His parents settled in Israel in 1971, and Lebor followed them in 1980.
By that time he had become a florist and worked at the King David Hotel, but he had difficulty with communicating. Signing in Hebrew is unlike American Sign Language.
He returned to the United States, and worked for a while in a hotel in the World Trade Center. Then he switched professions again and went to work for a major maintenance company. At the time of his death, he was working in one of the Twin Towers.
His body is the third of those recovered from the wreckage transported to Israel for burial.