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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Leo Dee

Leo Dee and his fiance, Aliza Teplitsky, after getting engaged in Gush Etzion, June 19, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 28, 2025, 9:20 pm
Two years after terrorists killed his wife and daughters, Leo Dee is set to remarry
After losing Lucy, Maia and Rina in a roadside attack in the West Bank on Passover 2023, the bereaved rabbi has learned to pick up the pieces and rebuild
By Zev Stub
ֿRabbi Leo Dee holds a press conference in Efrat, on April 10, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 2:47 pm
Court freezes PA tax funds for bereaved father whose family was killed by terrorists
After Leo Dee sues PA over discontinued ‘pay-for-slay’ system, a Jerusalem court sets aside NIS 50 million in damages for the British-Israeli rabbi — should he win his case
By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Jeremy Sharon
Michael Sfard (L) and Rabbi Leo Dee at a prayer event on Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 5, 2023 (Video screenshot)
October 6, 2023, 10:30 am
As politicians decry ‘attack’ on bereaved rabbi at prayer, both sides deny it occurred
PM says ‘no limit to madness’ after prayer clash at Dizengoff Square; but Rabbi Leo Dee states there was no violence, and man who bumped into him says he was trying to flee scene
By ToI Staff
A protester tackling Rabbi Leo Dee as he prays at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 5, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 5, 2023, 1:34 pm
Tel Aviv officials, activists disrupt protest prayer led by terror-bereaved rabbi
Municipal workers dismantle sex-segregation barrier placed in Dizengoff Square by Rabbi Leo Dee and other worshipers in response to confrontations over the divider on Yom Kippur
By Canaan Lidor
Christiane Amanpour participates in the 'Amanpour and Co.' panel during the TCA Summer Press Tour on July 30, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
May 23, 2023, 6:48 pm
CNN anchor Amanpour apologizes for calling terror attack on Dee family a ‘shootout’
Rabbi Leo Dee says he does not accept reporter’s apology for causing him ‘further pain,’ calling it ‘too little, too late’ six weeks after journalist’s original comments
By ToI Staff
IMAGE: In this March 13, 2021 file photo, Jewish and Arab Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against police inaction, the surging crime and violence in Arab communities. (Flash90)
May 7, 2023, 1:12 pm
Daily Briefing May 7: With 14 dead in a week, what’s sparking the spike in violence?
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on rise in murders, shooting of Dee terrorists and BlueWhale submarine; environment reporter Sue Surkes on failed obligations and Tolerance Museum
By ToI Staff
Leo Dee speaks to Channel 12 on May 4, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 4, 2023, 9:00 pm
After terror suspects killed, Leo Dee says he’d like to speak to their families
Father who lost wife, daughters is comforted by IDF’s killing of alleged attackers, but would like to ask their relatives why they did it and what their vision is for the future
By ToI Staff
A convoy of Israeli military vehicles drives through the West Bank city of Nablus, during a raid, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
May 4, 2023, 9:21 am
‘Scores settled’: IDF kills Palestinians who allegedly shot dead 3 Dee family members
Troops surround home in Nablus, reportedly fire missile in effort to flush out suspects, who are killed in ensuing firefight along with another gunman; Django, a police dog, killed
By Emanuel Fabian
The family of Lucy Dee, who was killed along with two of her daughters in a West Bank terror shooting, meet with the recipients of organs she donated, at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, May 2, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 2, 2023, 10:07 pm
‘Like I’m with her’: Terror victim Lucy Dee’s family visits recipients of her organs
A month after Palestinian terrorists killed Dee and 2 of her daughters, widower and surviving children use stethoscope to listen to her heartbeat inside woman who got transplant
By ToI Staff
ֿRabbi Leo Dee holds a press conference in Efrat, on April 10, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)
April 23, 2023, 9:51 am
Leo Dee to read Yizkor memorial prayer at national ceremony on Independence Day eve
Rabbi who lost wife and daughters in a terror shooting earlier this month has pleaded for Israeli unity in the face of judicial overhaul strife
By ToI Staff
Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, (L) meets with Leo Dee (R) during a condolence call in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on April 18, 2023 (Screen capture Srugim; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 18, 2023, 4:09 pm
Son of Iran’s last shah pays condolence call to Dee family, visits Western Wall
Reza Pahlavi and his wife sign a book of Psalms for grieving family; Leo Dee says he hopes to one day visit the royal palace in Tehran
By ToI Staff
Lucy and Leo Dee. (Courtesy)
April 17, 2023, 9:10 am
Leo Dee says he holds ‘no hatred’ for terrorists who killed wife, two daughters
Dee recounts how Palestinian friends from neighboring West Bank villages came to him in tears after news broke of deaths, notes one of organs donated by late wife went to Arab
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two daughters in a terror attack, during a shiva visit to Efrat on April 16, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
April 16, 2023, 4:02 pm
‘They live on through you’: Netanyahu visits grieving Dee family at Efrat home
Rabbi Leo Dee tells PM he doesn’t regret for one moment moving to Israel; daughter Tali asks PM how he dealt with pain of the death of his brother Yoni in 1976 Entebbe raid
By Ash Obel and ToI Staff
Rabbi Leo Dee (left) talks with OC Central Command Yehuda Fox at his home in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 14, 2023. (Efrat Municipality spokesperson)
April 15, 2023, 10:45 pm
Visiting grieving family, general vows to catch terrorists who killed mom, daughters
Week after deadly attack, Central Command chief says military failed in mission to protect women; Rabbi Leo Dee urges him not to put soldiers’ lives at risk for manhunt
By Michael Horovitz
The husband and children of Lucy Dee, 48, who was killed in a West Bank terror shooting attack, attend her funeral at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
April 11, 2023, 4:30 pm
‘To lose a mother is to lose life’: Thousands at funeral for terror victim Lucy Dee
Husband and three surviving children return to cemetery less than 48 hours after burying Dee’s two daughters Maia and Rina; all were killed in a West Bank shooting attack
By ToI Staff
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