Obituaries
Although he won praise for historic moments, like heralding Likud’s victory in 1977, he drew rebuke for a documentary portraying Israel as a brutal occupying power in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.
She helped turn JINSA into the “very significant face of the American Jewish community to the US military,” the JNS publisher said.
“Friends like Lindsey Graham come along once in a generation,” stated William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Besides Israel, she wrote on topics that ranged from the mentally ill to global warming, to the persecution of small American farmers by the Legal Services Corporation.
The former state attorney spent more than four decades in Israel’s legal system, saying on her retirement that protecting human dignity was her guiding principle.
Along with a group of intellectual activists, she founded Americans For a Safe Israel.
Agam was awarded the Israel Prize for Visual Arts in April.
The prolific writer of 450 books passed away at her Massachusetts home surrounded by family.
The eldest daughter of King Maha Vajiralongkorn died at age 47 after a prolonged illness.
The longtime American TV host inspired millions around the world through decades of accessible home workouts and remained deeply devoted to his Jewish roots and Israel.
The Israeli singer “crossed generations, communities and sectors, becoming an inseparable part of the soundtrack of our lives,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
