Obituaries

Boro Park Vizhnitzer Chassidic leader Rabbi Pinchas Shalom Hager, z'l, passes away at age 67.

I’ve had such a rich and meaningful life. Of course I wish I had more time.

The eldest son of US Vice President Joe Biden, Delaware Attorney "Beau" Biden, 46, has died of brain cancer.

A yeshiva student from Jerusalem was found lifeless Thursday after he apparently drowned while swimming in nearby Beit Zayit.

Actress and comedienne Meara Stiller died on Saturday at age 85.

Nobel Prize winner John Nash (86) and his wide Alicia Nash (82) were killed in a car crash on Saturday night in New Jersey.

Robert Wistrich, considered the world's leading historian on anti-Semitism, died in Rome late Tuesday from a heart attack. He was 70 years old. He was...

An American woman has died in Israel after possibly suffering heat stroke and falling while hiking at Masada.

PM Netanyahu sent a letter of condolences to the Levinger family on the passing of the late leader Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who was known for his life work in establishing the modern Jewish community of Hebron and as one of the founder of the Gush Emunim settlement movement.

Among those who spoke were President Ruby Rivlin, Minister Uri Ariel, Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Haim Druckman.

The police are asking everyone to be patient and follow their instructions.

Rabbi Levinger is most remembered for reestablishing Jewish life in Hebron and establishing the town of Kiryat Arba.

Two Jews, a women CEO of a start-up and a Naval Academy students, were among the seven people killed in Tuesday night's crash of...

Her passing is a great loss to the Eretz Yisrael movement, to Hevron the City of our Forefathers and to her family.

'Survey Monkey' CEO David Goldberg, husband of Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg, dies suddenly Friday night at age 47.

Rescue workers have found the body of the last missing Israeli, 22-year-old Or Ashraf, on Mt. Everest in a "complicated" location.

Bartoszewski began his diplomatic career at the age of 68 as Poland's ambassador to Austria before serving as foreign minister in 1995 and again from 2000 to 2001.

A tragic end to a search for a woman in her 60s who was reported missing on Tuesday; the traveler’s body was found Wednesday...

Police have closed the entrance to Alon Shvut, where eulogies for Har Etzion Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein will begin around 10 a.m. Rabbi Lichtenstein, who...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his sorrow over the passing of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein Monday. "Rabbi Lichtenstein's knowledge found expression in his literary works. He...

He followed and spread the teachings of his late father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Alfred Taubman, who helped shopping in the United States by developing malls, died of a heart attack while at home on Friday, He was...

She had many names and was many things to many people, but to me she was just Babineni.

Israel's foreign ministry is checking reports there was one Israeli citizen aboard a Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday.

Yehuda Avner dedicated his life to the State of Israel.

Lee Kuan Yew, the man who essentially created modern Singapore died on Monday at age 91.

Whenever this Israeli Arab paramedic hugs his little girl, he sees "the father of the Fogel family, Udi, hugging his baby, in his bed, both of them dead."

An abandoned Jewish soldier who died for Ukraine was rescued and given a proper Jewish burial by ZAKA. Their story.

Actor Leonard Nimoy, 83, "lived long and prospered" but on Friday moved on to explore the Next World.

"I mourn the passing of Minister Uri Orbach, a writer, a journalist, a spiritual man and a Jewish patriot," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said...