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

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

 YEHUDA BAUER

Global Jewry pays tribute to professor and Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer

 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

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

 Image of Nadav Elchanan Knoller.

Friends mourn fallen companion IDF soldier Nadav Elchanan Knoller

 Major (res.) Eyal Avnion.

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

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

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

 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
 DAVID LEVY is presented with the Israel Prize by then-education minister Naftali Bennett at the annual ceremony in Jerusalem, on Independence Day 2018.

Saying farewell to the late David Levy, a trailblazer of his time

By AVI NACHMANI