dies

Hundreds mourn Israeli soldier killed with marble slab

The raid in which Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky was injured targeted members of a Palestinian terror cell involved in recent attacks and shootings against Israelis.

Helmut Sonnenfeldt, top adviser to Kissinger, dies at 86

Helmut Sonnenfeldt, the top adviser to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has died.

John Demjanjuk, convicted of war crimes in Germany, dies stateless and in limbo

John Demjanjuk’s conviction in Germany sparked a new effort to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

Politics

Stephen Solarz, longtime rep and foreign policy leader, dies

United States

Benjamin Kaplan, Nurenberg attorney, dies

Global

Chess grandmaster Andor Lilienthal dies

Culture

Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha dies

Israel

David Bankier, Holocaust scholar, dies

Israel

Rabbi Menachem Porush, longtime Knesset member, dies

Global

Rosa Rein, world’s oldest Jew, dies

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