Obituaries

President Reuven Rivlin at Amos Oz funeral service

Ideas

Amos Oz’s fiction is forever, while reality left his politics behind

Palestinian rejectionismn left many Israelis contemptuous of the late novelist’s idealism, writes a novelist and attorney.

Georges Loinger, French Resistance fighter who saved Jewish children from the Nazis, dies at 108

Loinger, who was Jewish, smuggled at least 350 Jewish children whose parents had been killed or sent to Nazi concentration camps in small groups across the Franco-Swiss border.

Tzvika Levy, ‘Father of Lone Soldiers,’ dies at 70

Levy received the Israel Prize for Life Achievement last year for his work advocating for lone soldiers and the families of killed Israeli soldiers.

Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

Amos Oz, iconic Israeli novelist and peace activist, is dead at 79

Simcha Rotem, last known surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 94

Some of the inspiring Jews we lost in 2018

Robert Arnow, NY philanthropist and real estate developer, dies at 94

Rona Ramon, widow of astronaut killed in Space Shuttle Columbia, dies at 54

Rabbi Daniel Allen, philanthropy executive and Zionist activist, dies at 69

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