Obituaries

Journalist Yehuda Lev, who smuggled Holocaust survivors to Palestine, dies

Yehuda Lev, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, has died.

Yitzhak Berman, catalyst for Sabra and Shatila massacre inquiry, dies at 100

Yitzhak Berman, who quit Menachem Begin’s government to protest its resistance to investigating the causes of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, has died.

German industrialist Berthold Beitz, who saved Jews during WWII, dies

German industrialist Berthold Beitz, who rescued Jewish workers in occupied Poland by employing them during World War II, has died.

Ossie Schechtman, scored first basket in NBA, dies at 94

Helen Thomas, pioneering journalist who retired following anti-Israel gibes, dies

Leonard Garment, close friend of Nixon and Meir, dies

Alvin Schiff, Jewish education pioneer, dies

Nothing gray about it: Bill Gray was good for the Jews

Marc Rich, businessman controversially pardoned by President Clinton, dies

Gary David Goldberg, in memoriam

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