Obituaries

Shuka Dorfman, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, has passed away at 64 after a serious illness.

The victims from Tuesday's savage terror attack on Egged Bus No. 78 in Jerusalem have both been identified.

On September 25, 2008, Sternhell was the victim of a pipe bomb attack at his home, and was injured in the leg and hospitalized.

A 10th generation Jerusalemite, Salomon was a descendant of Rabbi Avraham Solomon Zalman Zoref.

Labor Party to hold Rabin memorial after annual event fails due to lack of interest and funds.

Grove played a critical role in the decision to move Intel’s focus from memory chips to microprocessors and led the firm’s transformation into a widely recognized consumer brand.

Four new terror victims will not be present to hear the reading of the Ten Commandments in synagogue this Shavuot. Their names have been released.

Silver served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015.

Bach served as the state’s attorney, and worked on gathering evidence under lead prosecutor Gideon Hausner.

One of the greatest heavyweight boxers the world has ever known, Muhammad Ali, is dead at the age of 74.

Gerstenfeld was considered one of the deepest and most influential thinkers in the study of anti-Semitism.

The Rav’s wife, Rebbetzin Shoshana, obm, preceded him, having passed away in 2016.

The firemen entered the 8-meter pit to rescue a man who had fallen in.

His death is a great loss to his family and to Israel at-large well as the Bayit Yehudi party.

Rabbi Rontzki expanded the IDF Jewish Awareness Department and even attempted to force the Army Radio to stop broadcasting on Shabbat.

In 1940 or the spring of 1941, Walaszczyk fell in love with Irena Front, who did not tell him she was Jewish.

The Rabbi was admitted to the hospital last week for symptoms of the virus.

An Israeli man, 65, was killed after falling during a hike while on vacation in Iceland.

The former chief of the KGB bequeaths evidence about Raoul Wallenberg for future generations, in papers found in a suitcase.

“By refusing with bravery to quit in the face of anti-Semitism and barbary, he honored France.”

The world of Jewish publishing should be a ride in Disneyland: a haunted house where the walls keep pressing in and the floor is creaking open.

The people inside and outside the school stood in silence and his classmates hugged and cried as the pallbearers carried Warmbier’s casket out to the hearse.

Above all, the Baba Sali was famed for his Sepahrdi-style farbrengens marked by song, dance, Torah, and arak. The purpose of these activities was to keep Moroccan Jewry in Israel connected to the Torah and their Torah culture.

The body of missing Israeli back packer Dor Cohen has been found in Georgia.

Chirac visited the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Western Wall, on October 22, 1996, in the second year of his first term in office.

'Her brother was murdered by terrorists, her father was murdered by terrorists. She had a very difficult life. A very good woman.'

All of the four IDF officers who were murdered by a Jerusalem Arab terrorist at Armon HaNatziv are to be laid to rest on the same day; 17 other injured victims are slowly healing from the attack.

The president called the Calypso singer, actor and activist “legendary.”

For almost twenty years, Volodya and Maria Slepak were, without exaggeration, the undisputed leaders of the historic movement for the spiritual and physical freedom of Soviet Jewry.

“We have lived in our land for thousands of years, we held onto it and will not let go, even when our enemies try again and again to harm us.”