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Actress Eva Marie Saint attends the 20th Annual Art Directors Guild Excellence In Production Design Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 31, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
October 7, 2026, 9:33 am
Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘Exodus,’ dies at 102
Saint played love interest to Paul Newman in 1960 blockbuster about Israel’s founding, amid other starring roles in career that spanned over six decades of American film and TV
By AP
FILE: British author and former MP Jeffrey Archer leaves St Paul’s Cathedral at the end of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral in central London on April 17, 2013. (LEON NEAL/AFP)
October 6, 2026, 8:46 am
Jeffrey Archer, bestselling novelist and scandal-ridden UK politician, dies at 86
Former Conservative MP sold over 300 million copies of his novels worldwide; spent 2 years in prison over high-profile perjury case in 2000s before rejoining House of Lords
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
British journalist Esther Rantzen arrives to attend a service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of late British singer Dame Vera Lynn, at Westminster Abbey, in central London, on March 21, 2022. (Hollie Adams/AFP)
October 1, 2026, 1:38 am
Campaigning British Jewish broadcaster Esther Rantzen dies at 86
Rantzen became a tireless champion of legalizing assisted suicide, after rising to prominence for her work on the BBC show ‘That’s Life!’
By Agencies
Actor Guy Kapulnik attends the Sloan Cocktails For War Games event during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, on April 28, 2012, in New York City. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images/AFP)
September 30, 2026, 8:11 am
Guy Kapulnik, Israeli actor and pilot, dies in light plane crash in California
A graduate of the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Jerusalem, Kapulnik appeared in films including ‘Room 514’ and ‘Lebanon’; was also a flight instructor in LA
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Albert Axelrad, shown above in 1982, was chaplain and Hillel rabbi at Brandeis University for 34 years, starting in 1965. (Peter Morris/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2026, 8:51 pm
Albert Axelrad, Brandeis Hillel rabbi who championed pluralism and social justice, dies at 87
Brooklyn native was a pioneer of adult b’nai mitzvah and a founder of Boston’s Havurat Shalom, which served as a model for the havurah movement
By Michele Chabin
US artist Peter Max poses for a photo during his retrospective with the Road Show Company exhibit, September 6, 2014, in Northbrook Court mall in Northbrook, Illinois. (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)
September 17, 2026, 9:48 am
Peter Max, whose psychedelic pop art came to symbolize the 60s, dies at 88
American-Jewish artist was born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937; family fled Nazi Germany to China, then lived in Haifa before settling in NYC when he was a teen
By Beth J. Harpaz
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who is also a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot. (Flash90)
August 31, 2026, 9:45 pm
Nobel Prize-winning Israeli chemist Ada Yonath dies at 87
Noted for her groundbreaking research on ribosome crystals, Yonath was one of the country’s greatest scientific minds, winning numerous awards over her decades-long career
By ToI Staff
King Harald V of Norway leaves the Notre Dame cathedral after attending at the funeral of the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, on May 4, 2019. (AP/Francisco Seco)
August 28, 2026, 12:59 pm
Norway’s King Harald V dies at age 89 after more than 35 years on throne
Norway mourns beloved king, Europe’s oldest monarch, as his son succeeds him; Herzog hails king’s ‘loyalty and devotion’
By Mark Lewis
Dolly Parton poses at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Ceremony in New York, on October 13, 2022. (AP/Andres Kudacki)
August 25, 2026, 10:17 pm
Dolly Parton, country music legend and beloved American cultural icon, dies at 80
Known for her unapologetically flashy style and soulful music, singer and philanthropist’s smash hits included ‘Jolene,’ ‘9 to 5’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’
By KRISTIN M. HALL
Jack Ukeles (Courtesy)
August 13, 2026, 11:15 am
Jack Ukeles, who used data and idealism to shape Jewish communal life, dies at 88
New Yorker turned Jerusalemite was in first graduating class of Bar Ilan University, studied changing face of American Jewry, and spoke out passionately against extremism in Israel
By Gary Rosenblatt
Kozo Okamoto, a member of the Japanese Red Army who carried out the May 30, 1972 attack on Lod Airport gives the victory sign to supporters as he arrives at a Palestinian cemetery to mark 50 years since the attack, in Beirut, Lebanon, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
July 23, 2026, 9:58 pm
Japanese Red Army terrorist behind deadly 1972 attack on Israeli airport dies at 78
Kozo Okamoto was sentenced to life in prison for attack that killed 26 people, but was freed 13 years later in a prisoner deal and moved to Lebanon, remaining there until his death
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli television anchor and documentary filmmaker Haim Yavin attends a debate organized by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on March 6, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 22, 2026, 8:51 pm
Veteran news anchor Haim Yavin, Israel’s ‘Mr. Television,’ dies at 93
Yavin, who for decades was country’s main TV news host, coined a new word live on air upon Menachem Begin’s dramatic 1977 election, and announced Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination
By ToI Staff
US Senator Lindsey Graham makes remarks to journalists in Jerusalem, October 8, 2024. (AP/ Maya Alleruzzo)
July 12, 2026, 1:03 pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, outspoken backer of US-Israel relationship, dies at 71
Longtime Republican lawmaker helped shape Trump’s foreign policy on Iran and regularly visited Israel; Netanyahu sends condolences, saying state ‘lost one of its greatest friends’
By Seung Min Kim and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Former Supreme Court justice Edna Arbel speaks at the annual cyber week held at Tel Aviv University on June 25, 2017. (Flash90)
July 1, 2026, 6:23 pm
Edna Arbel, former state attorney and Supreme Court justice, dies at 82
Arbel took part in Justice Ministry probe into Bus 300 affair, was on staff of state inquiry into Sabra and Shatila massacre, before becoming Tel Aviv District Court judge in 1988
By Michael Horovitz
Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music, appears during press day in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. (Casey Curry/Invision/AP)
June 23, 2026, 4:35 am
Influential Jewish rock-and-roll executive Clive Davis dies at 94
Music industry exec who played key role in careers of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow and Aretha Franklin, said after October 7 that he could not ‘be silent about antisemitism’
By Agencies
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