Deaths in the 2010s

Avraham Goldberg

1913–2012 (age 99)

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Moshe Landau

1912–2011 (age 99)

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David Bartov

1924–2018 (age 94)

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David Bartov (Hebrew: דוד ברטוב; 1 February 1924 – 29 March 2018) was an Israeli judge and the head of Nativ f...

Walter Laqueur

1921–2018 (age 97)

Har HaMenuchot

Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political com...

Haim Alexander

1915–2012 (age 97)

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David Rubinger

1924–2017 (age 93)

Har HaMenuchot

Shemaryahu Talmon

1920–2010 (age 90)

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Mordechai Eliyahu

1929–2010 (age 81)

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Trude Dothan

1922–2016 (age 94)

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Shabtai Rosenne

1917–2010 (age 93)

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Ada Brodsky

1924–2011 (age 87)

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Aharon Appelfeld

1932–2018 (age 86)

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Aharon Appelfeld was a Romanian-born Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor whose works explored the Jewish experience ...

Aharon Razin

1935–2019 (age 84)

Har HaMenuchot

Aharon Razin was an Israeli biochemist and pioneer in DNA methylation research who made fundamental contributions to epi...

Joram Lindenstrauss

1936–2012 (age 76)

Har HaMenuchot

Joram Lindenstrauss was an Israeli mathematician who made significant contributions to functional analysis and geometric...

David Bankier

1947–2010 (age 63)

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David Bankier was a German-born Israeli historian specializing in the Holocaust and the Third Reich.

Israel Katz

1927–2010 (age 83)

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Israel Katz was a Vienna-born Israeli ethnomusicologist who specialized in the study of Jewish and Mediterranean music t...

Jacob Bekenstein

1947–2015 (age 68)

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Jacob Bekenstein was a Mexican-born Israeli theoretical physicist who formulated the laws of black hole thermodynamics a...

Josy Eisenberg

1933–2017 (age 84)

Har HaMenuchot

Josy Eisenberg was a French-Israeli television producer and rabbi known for hosting interfaith dialogue programs on Fren...

Menachem Porush

1916–2010 (age 94)

Har HaMenuchot

Menachem Elon

1923–2013 (age 90)

Har HaMenuchot

Shmuel Eisenstadt

1923–2010 (age 87)

Har HaMenuchot

Meir Shamgar

1925–2019 (age 94)

Har HaMenuchot

Meir Shamgar (Hebrew: מאיר שמגר; August 13, 1925 – October 18, 2019) was the president of the Israeli Supreme ...

Benzion Netanyahu

1910–2012 (age 102)

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Mendel Weinbach

1933–2012 (age 79)

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David Resnick

1924–2012 (age 88)

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Yosef Shalom Eliashiv

1910–2012 (age 102)

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Jacob Milgrom

1923–2010 (age 87)

Har HaMenuchot

Yehuda Amital

1924–2010 (age 86)

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Meir Ezrī

1924–2015 (age 91)

Har HaMenuchot

Micha Shagrir

1937–2015 (age 78)

Har HaMenuchot

Moshe Arad

1934–2019 (age 85)

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Moshe Arad (15 August 1934 – October 25, 2019) was a former ambassador from Israel to Mexico (1983–1987) and an amba...

Moshe Lissak

1928–2018 (age 90)

Har HaMenuchot

Alfred Inselberg

1936–2019 (age 83)

Ra'anana

Alfred Inselberg (Hebrew: אלפרד אינסלברג) (22 October 1936, Athens, Greece – 30 December 2019, Tel Aviv, ...

Sarah Friedman

1930–2012 (age 82)

Ra'anana

Tawfik Toubi

1922–2011 (age 89)

Haifa

Moshe Amar

1922–2015 (age 93)

Haifa

Meir Cohen-Avidov

1926–2015 (age 89)

Haifa

Olga Rapay-Markish

1929–2012 (age 83)

Tel-Aviv

Zoya Ryleyeva

1919–2013 (age 94)

Tel-Aviv

Zoya Ryleyeva's paintings captured the colors of life and inspired fellow artists.

Schoschana Rabinovici

1932–2019 (age 87)

Tel-Aviv

Schoschana Rabinovici (née Suzanne Weksler; November 14, 1932 – August 2, 2019) was a Holocaust survivor and the auth...

Ella Akrytova

1934–2018 (age 84)

Ashkelon

Singer Ella Akrytova blessed audiences with a voice that blended emotion and grace.

Ya'akov Nehoshtan

1925–2019 (age 94)

Har HaMenuchot

Ya'akov Nehoshtan (Hebrew: יעקב נחושתן; 22 April 1925 – 17 April 2019) was an Israeli politician and diploma...

Avraham Tiar

1924–2011 (age 87)

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Yehuda Avner

1928–2015 (age 87)

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Haim Gouri

1923–2018 (age 95)

Har HaMenuchot

Haim Gouri (Hebrew: חיים גורי; né Gurfinkel; 9 October 1923 – 31 January 2018) was an Israeli poet, novelist,...

Jacob Joseph

1946–2013 (age 67)

Har HaMenuchot

Arie Shirom

1937–2012 (age 75)

Har HaMenuchot

Victor Shem-Tov

1915–2014 (age 99)

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David Messas

1934–2011 (age 77)

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Yehuda Kiel

1916–2011 (age 95)

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