Israël Isaac Besançon dies at age 81
Israël Isaac Besançon, a French-Israeli rabbi and painter, died on September 6, 2026, at age 81. Born in Nice on December 27, 1944, Besançon developed an early interest in painting…
Famous Dead People from Israel
Over 800 obituaries for famous people from Israel who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Ada Yonath has died at age 87
Ada Yonath, the Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, died on August 31, 2026, aged 87. Born in Jerusalem in 1939, she became known for pioneering cryo bio-crystallography…
Sliman Mansour obituary: died at age 79
Sliman Mansour, the Palestinian painter, sculptor and author, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Also known as Suleiman or Suliman Mansour, he was born in 1947 in Birzeit and…
Orit Galili-Zucker passes away at age 70
Orit Galili-Zucker, an Israeli journalist and political consultant, died on August 23, 2026, at age 70. She headed the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also served…
Caroline Langford dies at age 68
Caroline Langford, an Israeli actress, died on August 21, 2026, aged 68. Hebrew sources identified her as an Israeli performer and said she was born on February 1, 1958. The…
Tsuri Sagi passed away at age 92
Tsuri Sagi, an Israeli military officer who served as a senior commander in the 35th Paratroopers Brigade, died on August 19, 2026, aged 92. Born Tsuri Sheinkin in Herzliya in…
Shmuel Harlap dies at age 81
Shmuel Harlap, the Israeli businessman who chaired the Colmobil Group, died on August 19, 2026, aged 81. He was known as an investor in startup companies and held a doctorate…
Arnon Soffer died at age 90
Arnon Soffer, an Israeli geographer and professor, died on August 14, 2026, aged 90. He was a leading scholar of geography and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on water…
Oren Nahari dead at age 70
Oren Nahari, an Israeli journalist and presenter, died on August 12, 2026, aged 70, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He worked as a television and radio editor and presenter…
Obituary: Yehuda Lapidot, dead at age 97
Yehuda Lapidot, an Israeli historian and biochemist, died on August 11, 2026, aged 97. Born in Mandatory Palestine on August 13, 1928, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
Shimon Shelah dies at 94
Shimon Shelah, the Israeli basketball player and coach who was associated with Hapoel Tel Aviv and the national team, died on August 6, 2026, at age 94. Born in Vilnius…
Daniel Sivan, died aged 76
Daniel Sivan, a professor and Moroccan-born Israeli linguist, died on August 6, 2026, at age 76. Born in Casablanca on August 21, 1949, he was known as an emeritus professor…
Obituary: Shimon Charnuha, dead at age 78
Shimon Charnuha, an Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Netanya and Beitar Jerusalem, died on August 5, 2026, aged 78. Born on May 10, 1948, in Jerusalem, he was a…
Death of Aviezer Yaari at age 96
Aviezer Yaari, an Israeli general, died on July 27, 2026, aged 96. Yaari ended his Israel Defense Forces service at the rank of major general and served in military intelligence…
Aviezer Ya’ari passes away at age 96
Aviezer Ya'ari, an Israeli IDF general, died on July 27, 2026, aged 96. Born in Merhavia in 1930, he began his military career in 1948 and went on to serve…
George Israel dies at 78
George Israel, the American politician who served as mayor of Macon, Georgia, died July 25, 2026, at age 78. Born in Bibb County, Georgia, he later became mayor of Macon,…
Haim Yavin obituary: died at age 93
Haim Yavin, the Israeli television anchor and documentary filmmaker who became one of the country’s best-known news presenters, died on July 22, 2026, at the age of 93. Born Heinz…
Obituary: Israel Pincas, dead at age 91
Israel Pincas, the Israeli poet whose work appeared over decades in newspapers, magazines and literary supplements, died on July 19, 2026. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on January 28, 1935, he…
Joseph Algazy, died aged 87
Joseph Algazy, the Israeli historian and journalist who wrote for Haaretz and Le Monde diplomatique, died on July 18, 2026. Born in Alexandria on September 11, 1938, he studied and…
Assaf Razin, died aged 85
Assaf Razin died on July 8, 2026. He was an Israeli economist, academic and author. Razin taught at Tel Aviv University and Cornell University, and was recognized as a Fellow…
Nitzan Gilady obituary: died at age 56
Nitzan Gilady died on July 6, 2026. He was an Israeli film director. Tags Actors, 06 July 2026, Cancer, Gilady, Israel, Nitzan, July 2026, July 6
Edna Arbel passed away at age 82
Edna Arbel died on July 1, 2026, at the age of 82. She was an Israeli judge born in Jerusalem on June 22, 1944. Arbel studied at the Hebrew University…
Obituary: Amos Guetta, dead at age 75
Amos Guetta died on July 1, 2026. Tags Other, 01 July 2026, Amos, Guetta, Israel, July 1, July 2026
Tami Bezaleli dead at age 73
Tami Bezaleli died on June 29, 2026. Tags Artists, Writers, 29 June 2026, Bezaleli, Israel, Tami, June 2026, June 29
Ilana Cohen dies at age 82
Ilana Cohen, the Israeli nurse and politician who served in the Knesset from 2003 to 2006, died on June 21, 2026, at age 82. Born in Iraq on November 16,…
Yaacov Agam passed away at age 98
Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and experimental artist celebrated for his contributions to optical and kinetic art, died on June 21, 2026, at age 98. Born Yaakov Gipstein in Rishon…
Netanel Lasri, died aged 40
Netanel Lasri died on June 13, 2026. He was an Israeli military officer. Tags Other, 13 June 2026, Cancer, Israel, Lasri, Netanel, June 13, June 2026
Netanel Lasri, died aged 40
Netanel Lasri died on June 13, 2026. He was an Israeli military officer. Tags Other, 13 June 2026, Israel, Lasri, Netanel, June 13, June 2026
Astar Shamir dies at 71
Astar Shamir died on June 11, 2026. She was an Israeli singer and musician. Tags Musicians, 11 June 2026, Astar, Israel, Shamir, June 11, June 2026
Obituary: Gilad Janklowicz, dead at age 71
Gilad Janklowicz, the Israeli-born American fitness coach known for the television series Bodies in Motion and Total Body Sculpt with Gilad, died on June 9, 2026. He was 71. Born…
Death of Yishai Levi at age 63
Yishai Levi, an Israeli Mizrahi music singer, died on June 7, 2026, at the age of 63. Born in Rosh HaAyin on January 20, 1963, Levi began singing in clubs…
Rafi Baranes dies at 83
Rafi Baranes, an Israeli footballer who spent his entire career with Maccabi Tel Aviv, died on June 1, 2026, at age 83. A midfielder or winger, he was among the…
Yitzhak Apeloig dead at age 81
Yitzhak Apeloig, an Uzbek-born Israeli computational chemist and scholar who served as president of Technion from 2001 to 2009, died on May 28, 2026. He was 81. Apeloig was born…
Israel Goodovitch dies at 92
Israel Goodovitch, an Israeli architect and urban designer, died on May 22, 2026. Born in Haifa in 1934, he studied architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and…
Raz Adam obituary: died at age 26
Raz Adam, an Israeli basketball player, died on May 20, 2026. Raz Adam [he], 26, Israeli basketball player. Tags Athletes, 20 May 2026, Adam, Israel, Raz, May 20, May 2026
Ofer Bronchtein passed away at age 69
Ofer Bronchtein, a French-Israeli peace activist and diplomat, died on May 18, 2026, in Paris, France, from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 69. Born in Beersheba, Israel,…
Morris Soller died at age 94
Morris Soller, an American-Israeli agricultural geneticist, died on May 14, 2026. He was 94 or 95. Soller, whose Hebrew name was Moshe Morris Soller, was born in Manhattan, New York…
Liah Greenfeld dead at age 71
Liah Greenfeld died on May 13, 2026. She was a Russian-born Israeli-American sociologist and anthropologist. Greenfeld, born on August 22, 1954, wrote on nationalism and related subjects. Tags Scientists, 13…
Pierre Mouallem obituary: died at age 96
Pierre Mouallem, the Israeli Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch who served as bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo from 1990 to 1998 and as archbishop of Akka from…
Boutros Mouallem obituary: died at age 98
Boutros Mouallem, Israeli Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch and bishop, died on May 13, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Eilabun, Galilee, in 1928, he was ordained a priest…
Dovid Shmidel died at age 92
Dovid Shmidel, the Israeli rabbi who chaired Asra Kadisha, died on May 11, 2026, at the age of 92. Also spelled Dovid Schmidel, he was born in Vienna, Austria, on…
Aryeh Stern obituary: died at age 81
Aryeh Stern, an Israeli rabbi and the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Jerusalem, died on May 6, 2026, at the age of 81. He was a member of the Chief Rabbinate…
Herman Branover obituary: died at age 94
Herman Branover, a Russian-Israeli physicist and Jewish educator, died on May 4, 2026, at age 94. He was known in the scientific community as a pioneer in magnetohydrodynamics and in…
Yair Garbuz dies at 80
Yair Garbuz, an Israeli visual artist, writer, and opinion journalist, died on April 29, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Givatayim, Mandatory Palestine, on September 29, 1945, he…
Ittai Gradel obituary: died at age 61
Ittai Gradel, an Israeli-born British antiques dealer, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 61 from renal cancer. Born in Haifa on January 29, 1965, he was also…
Gideon Tish dies at age 86
Gideon Tish, an Israeli football player for Hapoel Tel Aviv, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 86. Tish was known for his time at Hapoel Tel Aviv,…
David Mena obituary: died at age 73
David Mena, an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as a member of the Knesset from 1992 to 1996, died on April 18, 2026, at the age of 73. Born…
Michael O. Rabin dies at 94
Michael O. Rabin, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 94. Born on September 1, 1931, in Breslau, Germany, Rabin was known…
Shlomo Breznitz dies at 89
Shlomo Breznitz, a Czechoslovak-born Israeli author, psychologist and former lawmaker, died on April 14, 2026. He was 89. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1936, Breznitz served as a member of…
Ari Ben-Menahem death at age 97
Ari Ben-Menahem, a German-born Israeli mathematician and geophysicist, died on April 9, 2026. He was 97. Born in Berlin on November 4, 1928, he was a professor of mathematics and…
Mohammed Washah passed away at age 39
Mohammed Washah, a Palestinian journalist, died on April 8, 2026, after an Israeli airstrike targeted the vehicle he was in while driving in Gaza City. He was 39–40 and worked…
Aron Shai death at age 83
Aron Shai, an Israeli historian, died on April 2, 2026. Aron Shai [he], 83, Israeli historian. Tags Scientists, 02 April 2026, Aron, Israel, Shai, 2026-04-02, April 2, April 2026
Suki Lahav death at age 74
Suki Lahav, the Israeli violinist, singer and lyricist who was a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band from September 1974 to March 1975, died on April 1, 2026, at…
Death of Edna Foa at age 88
Edna Foa, an Israeli psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, died on March 23, 2026. She served as director of the university’s Center for the…
Yair Levy dies at age 73
Yair Levy, an Israeli Haredi rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas from 1988 to 1992, died on March 20, 2026, at the age…
Death of Yaakov Edri at age 75
Yaakov Edri, an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset, died on March 18, 2026, at the age of 75. He served as mayor of Or Akiva from 1989…
Esmaeil Khatib has died at age 64
Esmaeil Khatib, an Iranian cleric and politician who served as minister of intelligence, died on March 18, 2026, when he was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike during the 2026 Iran…
Gholamreza Soleimani has died at age 61
Gholamreza Soleimani, an Iranian military officer and senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who commanded the paramilitary Basij forces, died on March 17, 2026, at the age of…
Shoshana Strook, died aged 34
Shoshana Strook, an Israeli activist, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 35. She was known for public allegations of abuse against MK Orit Strook and for advocacy…
2026 Lebanon war obituary: died at age -1
The 2026 Lebanon war, described as an Iranian commander in Lebanon, died on March 12, 2026, during the ongoing conflict in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Since March 2, 2026,…
Abdulwahab Darawshe, died aged 82
Abdulwahab Darawshe, an Israeli politician, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 82. He was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for…
David Rokni died at age 94
David Rokni, an Israeli reserve colonel who served as the commander of the annual Israel Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for nearly four decades, died on…
Walid Khalidi obituary: died at age 100
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in…
Eli Shamir dies at 91
Eli Shamir, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 91. He was the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science…
Death of Mohammad Pakpour at age -1
Mohammad Pakpour, an Iranian soldier and military officer who served as commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, died on February 28, 2026. He led the IRGC from 2025 until…
Obituary: Hossein Jabal Amelian, dead at age -1
Hossein Jabal Amelian, an Iranian military officer and brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, died on February 28, 2026. He served as chairman of Iran's Organization of Defensive…
Reza Mozaffari Nia passes away at age 66
Reza Mozaffari Nia, an Iranian military official and former director of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 66–67. Born in…
Saleh Asadi passed away at age -1
Saleh Asadi, an Iranian military intelligence officer, died on February 28, 2026, in Tehran during joint Israeli-United States airstrikes that targeted senior Iranian leadership. He served as head of the…
Mohsen Darrebaghi passed away at age -1
Mohsen Darrebaghi, an Iranian brigadier general and fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, died on February 28, 2026, during the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran.…
Bahram Hosseini Motlagh death at age -1
Bahram Hosseini Motlagh, an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, died on February 28, 2026. A brigadier general, he held a series of command and staff posts…
Ora Kedem obituary: died at age 101
Ora Kedem, an Austrian-born Israeli chemist and professor emerita, died on February 25, 2026. She was 101. Kedem taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University of the…
Dana Eden, died aged -1
Dana Eden, an Israeli creator and producer best known for co-creating and producing the Apple TV+ espionage series Tehran, died on February 16, 2026. She was 52. Born on September…
Aviv Melzer passed away at age 93
Israeli translator Died on Sunday February 15th 2026
Joseph Halpern died at age 72
Joseph Halpern, an Israeli-born American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University, died on February 13, 2026, at age 72. Born in Israel in 1953, he studied mathematics at the…
Dani Arditi died at age 75
Dani Arditi, an Israeli military officer, died on February 12, 2026, aged 75. Born in Yir'on in 1951, the son of Egyptian emigrants, he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces…
Victor Sarusi dead at age 81
Victor Sarusi died on February 9, 2026. He was an Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Netanya. No further details about his death were provided. Victor Sarusi (Hebrew: ויקטור סרוסי;…
David Federman, died aged 81
David Federman, an Israeli stockbroker and basketball club owner, died on February 8, 2026. Born in Tel Aviv on September 24, 1944, he was known for his business career, including…
Eli Alaluf has died at age 80
Eli Alaluf, an Israeli politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Fes, Morocco, on February 17, 1945, he immigrated to Israel in 1967. He…
Matti Caspi, died aged 76
Matti Caspi, an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer, musician, arranger and lyricist, died on February 7, 2026, at age 76. Born in Kibbutz Hanita on November 30, 1949, he began developing an…
Death of Margalit Oved at age 96
Margalit Oved, an American-Israeli dancer and choreographer, died on February 4, 2026, at age 96. Born in the Aden Protectorate on January 21, 1930, she was airlifted to Israel in…
Zohar Shavit passed away at age 74
Zohar Shavit, an Israeli scholar, author and translator, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Jaffa on April 14, 1951, she was a professor at…
Igal Talmi died at age 101
Igal Talmi, a Ukrainian-born Israeli nuclear physicist, died on February 4, 2026. He was 101. Born in Kiev, then in the Soviet Union, on January 31, 1925, Talmi’s family immigrated…
Tal Berkovich passed away at age 41
Israeli model and actress (Naor's Friends) Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Lev Abramson obituary: died at age 62
Israeli sculptor Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Eitan Na’eh dies at age 62
Israeli diplomat Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Isaac Witz passed away at age 91
Austrian-born Israeli immunologist Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Gabriel Barkay death at age 81
Israeli archaeologist Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Death of Uri Lupolianski at age 74
Israeli politician Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Yehezkel Dror passed away at age 97
Austrian-born Israeli political scientist Died on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Amit Saar dies at age 47
Israeli intelligence officer Died on Thursday January 1st 2026
Morris Kahn dead at age 95
South African-born Israeli entrepreneur Died on Thursday January 1st 2026
Hedva Harechavi has died at age 84
Israeli poet Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Issam Makhoul dies at 73
Israeli politician Died on Friday December 26th 2025
Moshe Yegar passed away at age 95
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Ram Loevy dies at age 85
Israeli film director and screenwriter Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Dan Tolkowsky passes away at age 104
Israeli military officer and businessman Died on Friday November 28th 2025