Obituaries

Ruth Matar, co-founder of Israeli women’s group opposing land concessions after Oslo, dies

Women in Green sought to counter media stereotypes by showing mothers, housewives and career women who could articulate opposition to the Oslo Accords.

Robert Faurisson, a father of the Holocaust denial movement, dies at 89

The former literature professor was convicted several times for claiming there was no systematic mass killings of Jews by Nazi Germany.

Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who hid 13 Jews in her attic in Poland, dies at 97

She married one of the people she rescued.

Yaakov Weinroth, attorney who represented Netanyahu and other politicians, dies at 71

Leon Lederman, Nobel-winning physicist who sold his prize to pay for medical expenses, dies at 96

Walter Laqueur, the Holocaust survivor who reinvented terrorism studies, dies at 97

Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin is dead at 76

Sidney Shachnow, Holocaust survivor who went on to command US forces in Berlin, dies at 83

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Clara Kramer, who survived Holocaust hidden in an underground bunker, dies at 91

Jewish rapper Mac Miller found dead at 26

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