Death

Your Investments: Estate planning lessons from the Torah - Keep wills fair and balanced - opinion

Your investments: No matter how great you think your children are, do everyone a favor, and create a will where assets are split evenly among your children.

GEORGE FOREMAN poses before the WBC Heavyweight World Championship fight in 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
People work at the site of the accident after Gloria funicular railway car, a popular tourist attraction, derailed and crashed, resulting in multiple casualties, according to authorities, in Lisbon, Portugal, September 4, 2025.

Portugal investigates crash on historic Lisbon funicular that killed 16

Designer Giorgio Armani appears at the end of his Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 collection show for Giorgio Armani Prive in Paris, France, January 28, 2025.

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died

 MDA ambulances

Three-year-old dies after being left alone in Beersheba car


Jewish actor Jerry Adler, 'Sopranos' star, dies at 96

On The Sopranos, he played consigliere Hesh Rabkin, a Jewish character who was Tony Soprano's associate.

Jerry Adler attends SopranosCon 2019 at Meadowlands Exposition Center on November 23, 2019 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter

Elias Rodriguez stands accused of shooting Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim to death outside the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21.

 Elias Rodriguez

Terence Stamp, actor who played Superman villain Zod, dies at 87

"He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come."

Cast member Terence Stamp arrives for the UK premiere of 'Song for Marion' at the Odeon West End, Leicester Square, London, Britain, October 19, 2012.

Kuwait arrests 67 after illegally-produced alcohol kills 23

Kuwait bans the import or domestic production of alcoholic beverages, but some are manufactured illegally in secret locations that lack safety standards, exposing consumers to the risk of poisoning.

(Illustrative) A police officer stands guard at the entrance of Bahrain Sunni Grand Mosque where joint Sunni and Shi'ites Friday prayers were held to show solidarity and co-existence between the two sects of Islam, in Juffair east of Manama, Bahrain, July 10, 2015.

A decade after Facebook: Instagram enables memorializing people after their death

Instagram now lets users appoint a memorial contact to manage parts of their account after death - without posting or reading messages - joining Facebook in offering tools to cope with loss.

Instagram

'An unfathomable tragedy': Man crushed by fallen tree at Shamir Medical Center

According to eyewitnesses, the man left the building to purchase a bottle of water when the tree suddenly hit him.

The entrance to Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), in Be'er Ya'akov, southeast of Tel Aviv on December 15, 2020.

Eyes harvested from the dead, bodies lost: Families file complaints against California hospitals

Families claim that Dignify Health hospitals failed to inform them of their loved ones deaths and their skin and eyes were harvested for donated without consent

Intravenous bags hangs in a hospital (illustrative)

A coma of denial: A cancer patient's struggle with facing mortality - opinion

The six weeks I was hospitalized represented for me a kind of “coma of denial,” in that I had been denying the gravity of my story without even knowing that my story was as grave as it was.

A man sticks his head in the sand in denial (illustrative)

Elderly Israeli woman dies in Greece after five story fall from hotel

An elderly Israeli woman died after she fell five stories from her hotel room in Greece, local media reported.

 Locals preffer tourists with deeper pockets. Corfu island in Greece

Inside the Tuam Dig: Archaeologists battle time to identify babies buried under St. Mary's

The two-year forensic dig, led by an 18-member international team, will probe the disused septic tank where the Bon Secours order is believed to have buried the children between 1925 and 1961.

 Tuam, Ireland.

Over 100 US Sheriffs join ZAKA training course on Jewish burial customs

Event in Florida strengthens cultural sensitivity in law enforcement amid ongoing support for Jewish communities

 Over 100 sheriffs joined the seminar hosted by ZAKA Search and Rescue last week in Florida aimed at educating law enforcement on Jewish customs related to honoring the dead.