Death

'The first woman E Streeter': Springsteen band drummer remembers Suki Lahav, Jewish violinist

“Suki and Louie were quite literally the first people associated with Bruce and the band that I came to know, respect, admire, and yes, love,” he wrote to The Jerusalem Post from Portland, Oregon.

TZRUYA ‘SUKI’ Lahav‎ in 2008.
View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Carol Fesler appeal puts sentence in Rafael Edna hit-and-run case back before court

Yaakov Erez and Yitzhak Rabin

Yaakov Erez, former Maariv editor and Sokolov Prize winner, dies at 87

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026.

LaGuardia controller under investigation in Air Canada Express runway collision


Woman spared cremation after officials hear her knocking on coffin door

The woman was bedridden for two years prior to the incident and had reportedly been unresponsive for days.

Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple provides funds for a woman nearly cremated alive.

Mark Mellman, pollster who championed Democrats and Israel, dies at 70

For Mellman, Jewish values and Democratic values went hand in hand.

Volunteers supporting Democratic Majority for Israel in Ohio.

UK PM Johnson oversaw 'chaotic' response to COVID which led to more deaths, inquiry finds

UK inquiry finds Boris Johnson’s delayed lockdown and chaotic leadership contributed to around an additional 23,000 COVID deaths.

BORIS JOHNSON, one of many contenders for the Conservative leadership

New Jersey man’s death tied to meat allergy-causing tick in first-of-its-kind case

The man died four hours after eating a burger, weeks after he developed an allergy to meat as a result of a tick bite.

 Adult deer tick

Nobel laureate James D. Watson, DNA double helix co-discoverer, dies at 97

The American biologist whose name became synonymous with the discovery of DNA’s double-helical structure, died Thursday.

DNA (illustrative).

Jewish concepts of 'afterlife' may be recent adaptations, study finds

In the Hebrew Bible, the term Sheol is the shadowy abode of the dead. It is often depicted as “down below,” silent, and without active praise of God.

The authors describe a shift “from the almost ‘materialistic’ idea of the early Israeli society to the belief in life beyond the grave and the resurrection of the dead…"

Two brothers killed, father in critical condition in Ramle shooting attack

Several arrests were made by police following operational searches at the scene.

Muhammad, 23 (L) and Ziad, 16, were killed in a shooting incident in Ramla, while their father was wounded in critical condition, November 7, 2025.

Israel Police cracking down after synthetic drugs kill three in same week

Three young people in central Israel have died after consuming synthetic drugs, raising alarms over the growing dangers and accessibility of these substances.

(Illustrative) A customs officer displays Captagon pills. Sofia, 12, 2007.

Dick Cheney, powerful former US vice president who pushed for Iraq war, dies at 84

Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said.

Dick Cheney addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference 2007 in Washington March 12, 2007.

Guests told not to look outside hotel windows as Disney World sees third October death - NYP

The latest death saw a man die at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom Park outside Orlando, Florida.

 A float with people dressed as characters from the Walt Disney movie "Peter Pan" is seen as people attend the "Festival of Fantasy" parade at the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Florida, U.S. July 30, 2022