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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
Economist Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, is seen in his office in Washington, October 18, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
June 22, 2026, 4:10 pm
Alan Greenspan, who led US Federal Reserve for five terms, dies at 100
Known deferentially as ‘Oracle’ and ‘Maestro,’ long-term Fed chair oversaw a period of US economic growth, but 2008 crisis, which began just after he left office, marred his legacy
By PAUL WISEMAN
Yaacov Agam, Israeli artist, reclining on one of his works at the Georges Pompidou Art Center, June 28, 2003, in Paris, where his works of kinetic sculpture were on exhibit. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
June 21, 2026, 2:51 pm
Yaacov Agam, pioneering Israeli kinetic artist and Israel Prize laureate, dies at 98
Sculptor celebrated for his vibrant geometric shapes and interactive works created the iconic Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square, among numerous other pieces
By Biranit Goren and Jessica Steinberg
Mona Khalil looks at a turtle on the coast of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, August 12, 2002. (Jihad Seqlawi/AFP)
June 21, 2026, 12:37 pm
Renowned Lebanese turtle conservationist succumbs to wounds sustained in Israeli strike
Mona Khalil, 76, was the founder of a sea turtle sanctuary near Tyre; IDF says she wasn’t a target, but acknowledges carrying out strikes in the area after an evacuation warning
By ToI Staff and AFP
Cara Trager at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in January 2026. (Courtesy of Rachel Sales)
June 11, 2026, 1:44 pm
Cara Trager, beloved Queens Jewish communal leader and lifelong journalist, dies at 71
A Bronx-born writer who was ‘hungry for Judaism’ from a young age, Trager wrote for Newsday until her death, loved Israel, and was involved in myriad Jewish institutions and causes
By Grace Gilson
Former French first lady Bernadette Chirac attends a a tribute ceremony to French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, on July 5, 2017. (Michel Euler / POOL / AFP)
June 6, 2026, 6:16 pm
Bernadette Chirac, formidable former first lady of France, dies at 93
Chirac spent 12 years at the Élysée Palace alongside her husband, Jacques, enduring infidelity and building power of her own. ‘A great lady of the heart has departed’ says Macron
By Thomas Adamson
French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin speaks during his conference on December 6, 2007 in Mexico City. (Photo by Ronaldo SCHEMIDT / AFP)
May 30, 2026, 1:32 pm
French-Jewish intellectual Edgar Morin, ‘grandfather’ of France,’ dies at 104
Born to Greek-Jewish immigrants, Morin shied away from being defined by his Jewishness; was sharply critical of Israel; beloved in France for his explorations of the big questions of the day
By Clare BYRNE
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. gestures during his news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 29, 2011. . (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
May 20, 2026, 10:24 pm
Barney Frank, the Jewish progressive congressman behind landmark finance bill, dies at 86
A lifelong liberal Zionist and the first openly gay member of Congress, Frank campaigned for rights for gay soldiers, using the IDF as proof that it wouldn’t weaken the military
By Ron Kampeas
Barney Frank speaks during PFLAG National's Love Takes Justice event at AFT Headquarters on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
May 20, 2026, 6:17 pm
Barney Frank’s final message on Israel: US should support opposition to Netanyahu
In interview days before passing, Jewish ex-congressman long supportive of Israel urged Democrats to condition arms sales to Netanyahu gov’t, though he opposed other litmus tests on social and economic policy
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Portrait of Abraham Foxman, then national director of the Anti-Defamation League, May 7, 2009. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
May 10, 2026, 10:45 pm
‘He pursued a world without hate’: Former Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman dies at 86
Successor Greenblatt hails Foxman, who served from 1987 to 2015, as ‘iconic Jewish leader, passionate advocate for the Jews and Israel’; Herzog mourns ‘Zionist, humanist, and friend’
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and JTA
Artist Yair Garbuz on July 17, 2023. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 29, 2026, 7:47 pm
Artist, left-wing activist and writer Yair Garbuz dies at 80
Known for his collages and an incendiary comment made at a 2015 rally, Garbuz stayed mostly out of public life for the last decade
By Jessica Steinberg
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