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Michelle Trachtenberg appears at the premiere of 'Defiance' during AFI Fest 2008 in Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
March 1, 2025, 10:14 am
Family of Jewish star Michelle Trachtenberg said to decline autopsy for religious reasons
Cause of death expected to be recorded as undetermined; 39-year-old actress was recent recipient of liver transplant
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on October 16, 2024, shortrly before he was killed. (Courtesy)
October 19, 2024, 4:05 am
Sinwar died of gunshot to head, says doctor who oversaw autopsy
Dr. Chen Kugel tells NYT that the Hamas leader was first wounded by shrapnel, notes he tried to use makeshift tourniquet but ‘it wasn’t strong enough, and his forearm was smashed’
By AFP
Police at a Ramot property August 13, 2022, after reports a young boy was found with strangulation marks on his neck. The boy was pronounced dead the following day. (Israel Police)
September 1, 2022, 4:12 pm
Man suspected of strangling 4-year-old nephew to death charged with murder
Prosecution alleges boy was attacked after entering his uncle’s room; motive not given, though suspect had known mental health issues
By Ash Obel
Police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox men in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on August 15, 2022, during a protest over the autopsy of a 4-year-old boy who was allegedly strangled to death by his uncle a few days before. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 15, 2022, 4:55 pm
Court accepts family request, orders 4-year-old released for burial without autopsy
High Court of Justice overturns previous decision that prompted violent protests in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods
By Judah Ari Gross
A protester watches as fires burn during a demonstration in Jerusalem on August 14, 2022, against the expected autopsy of a 4-year old boy. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 15, 2022, 12:36 am
Hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protest planned autopsy of 4-year-old boy
Police arrest 5 as protesters block roads, set trash bins on fire in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh; family of victim, allegedly strangled by uncle, appeal decision to perform procedure
By ToI Staff
Palestinian militants carry the body of Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network, into the morgue inside the Hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
May 11, 2022, 10:52 pm
Israel, Palestinians said in talks to cooperate on probe into reporter’s death
Report says bullet extracted from Shireen Abu Akleh’s body is a 5.56 mm round used by both IDF soldiers and Palestinian terror groups
By ToI Staff
In this July 16, 2009 photo Dr. Cyril Wecht pauses as he records notes during an autopsy in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
December 5, 2020, 2:01 am
Celebrity US pathologist Cyril Wecht spills his guts in new tell-all memoir
In ‘The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht,’ the forensics legend dissects his humble beginnings, high profile cases, and legal woes that cost him millions
By Hilary Daninhirsch
George Floyd. (Christopher Harris via AP)
June 1, 2020, 11:15 pm
Contradicting official findings, family autopsy says Floyd died of asphyxiation
Official autopsy of US black man killed by white cop concluded there was nothing ‘to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation’
By Amy Forliti
Israeli police at the Miami Hotel where an infant drowned in a bathtub, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on April 2, 2018. (Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 3:11 pm
Mother of drowned infant deemed mentally unfit to stand trial
Psychiatrist determines woman wasn’t responsible for her actions when her month-old baby died in a hotel hot tub
By ToI Staff
The funeral procession in Jerusalem on April 5, 2018, for a one-month old baby who drowned in a hotel jacuzzi in Ashdod. (Screen capture/Walla)
April 5, 2018, 8:10 pm
Haredi radicals grab body of drowned baby from ambulance during funeral
Zaka emergency service says one of its medics beaten by mob as infant who drowned in Jacuzzi buried following court-ordered autopsy, carried out despite ultra-Orthodox protests
By ToI Staff
Attornies Moshe Almaliach (C) and Itamar Ben Gvir (L) representing the family of the drowned infant from Ashdod, speak with media after a discussion at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on April 4, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 4, 2018, 9:13 pm
High Court green-lights autopsy on baby who drowned in jacuzzi
Rejecting family’s petition and siding with police, justices say there is no alternative to examination to help pinpoint cause of death
By ToI Staff
Police at the Miami Hotel where an infant drowned in a bathtub, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on April 2, 2018. (Flash90)
April 4, 2018, 2:46 pm
Family of drowned baby appeals to High Court against autopsy
As ultra-Orthodox protesters block roads for third straight day, lawyers for detained parents of month-old infant who died in hotel jacuzzi decry plan to ‘defile’ the body
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of the baby that drowned to death yesterday in Ashdod, at Kikar HaShabat, in Jerusalem, on April 3, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 4:32 pm
Ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem roads as parents detained in infant’s drowning
Both mother and father remanded in custody as hundreds demonstrate in capital over court decision to allow autopsy
By ToI Staff
Police at the Miami Hotel where an infant drowned in a bathtub, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on April 2, 2018. (Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 11:20 am
Mother suspected in infant’s drowning in hotel jacuzzi
Amid riots by ultra-Orthodox activists in Jerusalem and Ashdod, court agrees to police request to perform autopsy
By ToI Staff
A view of the St. Pancras coroner’s court in London. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
January 23, 2018, 3:47 am
Jewish leaders call for removal of London coroner over delayed burials
Official who said ‘no death will be prioritized’ accused by Board of Deputies of British Jews of ‘failing to respect basic human rights’
By JTA
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