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Maj. (res.) Itamar Levin Fridman fell in Gaza, November 11, 2024.

IDF announces Maj. (res.) Itamar Levin Fridman fell in combat in northern Gaza

By Avi Ashkenazi , MOSHE COHEN

Sgt. Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia, who fell in combat in Gaza, October 25, 2024.

Yeshiva praises graduate Sgt. Hillel Ovadia, who fell in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

YEHUDA BAUER

Global Jewry pays tribute to professor and Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Pioneering surgeon and Holocaust survivor Dr. George Berci.

Jewish Life Stories: George Berci, 103, the Holocaust survivor who revolutionized surgery

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

The late Murray Greenfield

Remembering Murray Greenfield, a New York-born Israeli hero

Tamar Fishman poses with the artwork that became a U.S. Postal Service stamp issued on Hanukkah 2018.

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Joseph S. Bodenheimer

Prof. Joseph Bodenheimer, pioneering physicist and academic leader, passes away at 83

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi, India — one of the oldest synagogues in the Commonwealth countries.

Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

SHAI DORON, always a civil servant.

Jerusalem mourns Shai Doron, president of the Jerusalem Foundation, who passed away at 64

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Image of Nadav Elchanan Knoller.

Friends mourn fallen companion IDF soldier Nadav Elchanan Knoller

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Major (res.) Eyal Avnion.

'The best of the best,' remembering fallen soldier Eyal Avnion

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ray Benson 88 224

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Jacob Goldstein, an Australian physician and child of Holocaust survivors, and his daughter Elissa.

Jewish Life Stories: A refusenik who found literary freedom in America, and a refugee-cum-surgeon

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Anouk Aimee in A Man and a Woman (1966).

French-Jewish actress Anouk Aimée dies at 92, daughter confirms

By HANNAH BROWN

Larry Nussbaum, 77, was a fierce advocate for Israel and the Jews – and an exceptional doctor

By HOWARD LOVY/JTA

The IDF announced the names of twelve fallen soldiers.

IDF announces the names of 12 fallen soldiers: Here are their stories

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Frieda Johles Forman, feminist translator, editor and writer, sits for an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center, May 11, 2016, in Toronto.

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Morrie Markoff in 2023.

Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA