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‘Big’ George Foreman, the last great heavyweight champ, dies at 76

Known as “Big George,” Foreman’s life story is a drama in three parts.

Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold

Dore Gold, influential diplomat and Netanyahu confidant, dies at 71

“He was endowed with unique intellectual integrity, capability for action, and genuine love for the State of Israel," Netanyahu said.

03/03/2025

Anan Safadi: A pioneer of English-language journalism in Israel

Anan Safadi’s legacy as a pioneering journalist continues to be remembered by those who followed his work.

  MOSHE ARENS, in 2016: Even those who did not share his principles, respected his perseverance

Remembering Moshe Arens three years on: a politician and a mensch

Rest in peace, Misha. We, who are led by Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, have neither peace nor rest.

By TOVA HERZL
09/01/2025
A Jewish gravestone with symbolic rocks, portrayed as newspaper clippings

What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people

All of us deserve an image that says who we are and were, and not a low-resolution snap from an old yearbook or a blurry vacation photo.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
08/01/2025

Peter Yarrow, Jewish musician and activist of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, dies at 86

Yarrow wrote the music for the Peter, Paul and Mary's best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
08/01/2025

Remembering Clinton Bailey, Ben-Gurion interviewer and Bedouin expert

Buffalo-born Dr. Bailey's interview with David Ben-Gurion was the basis of a major film, and he was also the creator of an archive of Bedouin life at the National Library of Israel.

 Then-US president Jimmy Carter receives a farewell ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, 1979

'A brave leader': Netanyahu, Herzog react to Jimmy Carter's death

Both President Herzog and Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed condolences on their official social media.

Famed Jewish record producer Richard Perry dies at 82

Colleagues memorialize one of the main movers of the Los Angeles music and film celebrity world in the 1970s.

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

Fridman was in combat in Jabalya under the command of the Givati Brigade's combat team and fell after an anti-tank missile was fired at the force.

By AVI ASHKENAZI , MOSHE COHEN
11/11/2024
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