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Final hostage Ran Gvili is buried, Trump announces armada headed for Iran

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IDF troops honor slain hostage St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili after his remains were recovered in Gaza on Januray 26, 2026.
Friends and family attend the funeral of Dan Alkayim, who was murdered in a mass terrorist shooting attack on December 14, 2025 at Bondi Beach in Sydney, at a cemetery in Ashdod, southern Israel, December 25, 2025.

'Angelic, full of joy': Ashdod mayor honors 27-year-old Dan Alkayim, killed in Bondi Beach attack

A picture shows traffic in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023

Between fear and hope, civic protest survives in Iran -opinion

Mourners carry the casket of 10-year-old Matilda the youngest victim of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday, at Chevra Kadisha Memorial Hall, in Sydney, Australia, December 18, 2025.

Ten-year-old Bondi victim Matilda laid to rest as PM Albanese promises hate-speech crackdown


'A man of truth': Staff-Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir laid to rest at Mt. Herzl

Amir was buried next to Sgt. First Class David Yehuda Yitzhak, the soldier who fell earlier this week during the operation in Jenin.

 Thousands attend the funeral of Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir, killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2023.

IDF investigating if Israeli soldier was killed by friendly fire - report

IDF soldier St.-Sgt. David Yehuda Yitzhak was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Mt. Herzl, Wednesday evening.

 IDF soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak.

Eli shooting victim Nahman Shmuel laid to rest in Shilo

Nahman Shmuel, Harel Masoud, Elisha Entman and Ofer Feirman were murdered in a shooting terror attack in Eli on Tuesday.

 A man reacts, as friends and family mourn 17-year-old Israeli Nachman Shmuel Mordoff, who was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack along with three other Israelis near the settlement of Eli, at his funeral in Shilo in the West Bank, on June 21, 2023.

TikTok Dad fakes death, arrives at funeral to prank loved ones

“It proves who really cares about me. Those who didn’t come did contact me to meet up. So in a way, I did win,” the TikToker explained.

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14 Days: Soldiers killed

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 The three IDF soldiers who were killed in a terrorist attack on the Egyptian border.

Woman pronounced dead in Ecuador 'comes back to life', knocks on coffin at funeral

In Ecuador, a family dealing with the grief of loss was met with the ultimate surprise - their loved one was still alive.

 A 76-year-old woman, who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador's Babahoyo, shocked her family when she knocked on her coffin during her wake on June 9.

Blast tears through mosque at Afghanistan local deputy governor funeral

The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday.

 A man walks past the site of a suicide attack along the roadside in Faizabad district of Badakhshan province on June 6, 2023

Airport error returns body of deceased Irish citizen to Greece

The family had to re-arrange the funeral as the handling company quickly moved to locate the missing coffin.

 The Dublin Airport

Israeli hospital: Five miscarried embryos kept in a lab for years, families unaware

Miscarried embryos in Israel are sent to a lab for an examination and then sent for burial without a funeral or ceremony.

 An embryo week 9-10

On Jerusalem Day two years ago, a funeral was held in the capital amid street riots

A bus was hired for family members to go to the graveside for burial and further psalms. The reserved private tour bus was equipped with reinforced windows to protect from rock-throwing.

 US ARMY cartographer Irving Abramowitz in Nome, Alaska, 1945.