Obituaries

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images)

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic gymnastics medals, dies at 103

Keleti moved to Israel in 1957 and helped build the new country’s gymnastics program.

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Notable New Yorkers who died in 2024.

18 notable Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2024

Writers, rabbis, comedians and a master tailor are some of the people we lost in 2024.

Yuval Shoham, 22, soldier who searched for his captive friend Hersh Goldberg-Polin, dies in Gaza

Shoham is at least the ninth graduate of his Jerusalem high school to die in the war.

Anwar Sadat

Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100

Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75

Jewish Life Stories: One of the last ‘Ritchie Boys’ dies at 101

18 notable Jews who died in 2024

Jewish Life Stories: Jim Abrahams, the filmmaker who co-piloted ‘Airplane!’ into comedy history, dies at 80

Family of hostage Keith Siegel buries its matriarch, 424 days into his captivity in Gaza

Ursula Haverbeck

Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96

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