Soviet cancer patient Yuri Shpeizman died Sunday in Vienna. The ten-year refusenik succumbed to cardiac arrest immediately after his arrival in Vienna after being released from the Soviet Union. Shpeizman was en route to Israel with his wife, Nelly, to be reunited with their daughter, Rita Levin of Jerusalem, who campaigned for her father’s emigration…. More ▸
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Biderman, the Rebbe of Lelov, died in Bnei Brak this week and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Although the Hasidic sect he led was small, he was admired in Israel and abroad for his long and fervent worship. The Rebbe was born in Jerusalem around the turn of… More ▸
Cesar Yaacov Douek, an Egyptian Jew who hid in a cellar for 22 years, died in Cairo Sunday at the age of 82, Israel Radio reported. Douek went into hiding in 1957 when then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered Jews expelled from Egypt in the aftermath of the Sinai campaign. He concealed himself in… More ▸
A 21-year-old Israeli soldier who died at a Haifa hospital yesterday of wounds suffered in south Lebanon Saturday, was a member of a prominent American-Jewish publishing family. Pvt. Marcus Hochstein, the latest fatality sustained by the Israel Defense Force, was the son of Joseph Hochstein, former publisher of he Jewish Week of Washington, D.C. and… More ▸
An Israeli army officer died last night of wounds he suffered yester-day in Lebanon, a military spokesman announced this morning. The name and rank of the deceased was not immediately released. The spokesman said he was one of two soldiers wounded when their vehicle was ambushed by small arms fire near Kfar Sil, a village… More ▸
An Israeli soldier was wounded when small arms fire hit a bus he was riding in near Sidon in south Lebanon today. Two other Israeli soldiers were wounded in a similar attack on a convoy in the same area yesterday. One of two soldiers wounded in an ambush near the Lebanese mountain village of Aley… More ▸
The death of Alexander Landsman, the 17-year old Soviet Jewish boy whose parents had requested permission for him to emigrate from the Soviet Union in order to seek treatment of leukemia in the West, was announced by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. The Conference was the primary sponsor of the family’s request… More ▸
The terrorist ambush in Hebron claimed its sixth fatality last night when Hanan Kroitheimer, 20, died of his wounds at Hadassah Hospital. Like several of the other victims, Kroitheimer was a student at the Hesder Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba where he combined religious studies with military training. According to a hospital bulletin, the condition of… More ▸
Joseph Kotaella, one of three Nazi war criminals still imprisoned in Holland, died at Breda prison today at the age of 71. A German by birth, he was, as deputy commandant of the Amersfoort concentration camp during World War II, responsible for mass murder and countless other atrocities. Kotaella was sentenced to death after the… More ▸
A second French policeman died here this afternoon as a result of wounds sustained during last Saturday’s terrorist attack against E1 A1 passengers at the Orly Airport. One policeman, a senior non-commissioned officer was shot dead Saturday by the terrorists when he tried to check their luggage. The non-commissioned officer, Sgt. Maj. Paul Jean, was… More ▸
