Obituaries

Israeli spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishik dies at 100

Codenamed "The Pearl," she worked for the Mossad in Lebanon helping persecuted Jews from Arab countries get to Israel and gathering intelligence about Arab military activities.

Alan Mintz, Hebrew literature scholar and one-time student activist, is dead at 69

The Jewish Theological Seminary scholar's specialties focused on Hebrew literature in America, Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon and responses to the Holocaust.

Nikos Stavroulakis, activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece, dies

Stavroulakis was the driving force behind the restoration of the centuries-old Etz Hayyim synagogue in Crete destroyed during World War II.

Rabbi Benny Elon, former Knesset member and champion of settlement movement, is dead at 62

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King to Montgomery, is dead at 100

Dr. Mark Wainberg, renowned AIDS researcher, drowns while vacationing in Florida for Passover

Don Rickles, insult comedian and actor, is dead at 90

Masha Leon, Forward society columnist for 30 years, dies at 86

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