Funeral

'Angelic, full of joy': Ashdod mayor honors 27-year-old Dan Alkayim, killed in Bondi Beach attack

Alkayim's death was announced by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in a post to X/Twitter in the hours after the attack.

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Friends and family attend the funeral of Dan Alkayim, who was murdered in a mass terrorist shooting attack on December 14, 2025 at Bondi Beach in Sydney, at a cemetery in Ashdod, southern Israel, December 25, 2025.
A picture shows traffic in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023

Between fear and hope, civic protest survives in Iran -opinion

What began as mourning for a human rights lawyer in Mashhad exposed Iran’s familiar strategy of turning grief into a threat and protest into a crime.

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Mourners carry the casket of 10-year-old Matilda the youngest victim of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday, at Chevra Kadisha Memorial Hall, in Sydney, Australia, December 18, 2025.

Ten-year-old Bondi victim Matilda laid to rest as PM Albanese promises hate-speech crackdown

"The tragic, so totally cruel, unfathomable murder of young Matilda is something to all of us as if our own daughter was taken from us," said Rabbi Yehoram Ulman.

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Mourners follow the casket of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a victim of a mass shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, during the funeral at Chabad of Bondi synagogue, in Sydney, Australia, December 17, 2025.

As funerals begin, New South Wales rushes gun law reforms after Bondi attack

Funerals for Jewish victims of Sunday’s attack began on Wednesday, amid anger over how the gunmen were allowed access to powerful firearms.

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'A light of joy': Decade after death, Oron Shaul laid to rest in Israel

Thousands came to see Oron Shaul off on his final journey, including Israeli President Isaac Herzog and several ministers and members of the Knesset.

JANUARY 20, 2025BySHAKED SADE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The funeral of late Israeli soldier Oron Shaul at the cemetery in Poria Illit on January 20, 2025.

We must honor our fallen and ensure they didn't die in vain - opinion

Jews in Israel and throughout the world, and all decent human beings who support freedom and democracy, must remember and honor our fallen heroes.

JANUARY 16, 2025ByFRED NAIDER
MOURNERS ATTEND the funeral of IDF Staff Sergeant Aviel Wiseman, killed in Gaza, at the military cemetery in Poria Illit, on Tuesday. Jews in Israel and throughout the world, and all decent human beings who support freedom and democracy, must remember and honor our fallen heroes, the writer asserts

WATCH: Jimmy Carter honored with state funeral before burial in Georgia hometown

Fellow Democratic President Joe Biden will eulogize the 39th president who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

JANUARY 9, 2025ByREUTERS
The casket bearing the remains of former US president Jimmy Carter arrives at the Washington National Cathedral, January 9, 2025

Jimmy Carter to receive US Capitol tribute before funeral service

Both Biden and Trump are expected to attend Carter's funeral service on Thursday.

JANUARY 7, 2025ByREUTERS
Funeral bunting on a portrait of former US President Jimmy Carter

'An atmosphere of holiness': How the IDF's Camp Shura handles the bodies of the fallen

The ‘Magazine’ visits Camp Shura, where the IDF Rabbinate helped identify and prepare more than 1,000 people for burial in the wake of Oct. 7.

DECEMBER 22, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
IDF soldiers at Camp Shura. From left: Pvt. Shari Mendes, Stf.-Sgt. Bentzi Mann, and Capt. Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman.

UAE official pays respects at shiva of murdered Chabad emissary, vows commitment to coexistence

Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, a senior member of the UAE, visited the shiva of Rabbi Zvi Kogan to offer his condolences to the grieving family personally.

NOVEMBER 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Photo of the Shiva

High Court offers compromise on military funeral for Asaf Dagan, after taking his own life

Dagan took his own life in Atlit in October after suffering from severe PTSD.

NOVEMBER 27, 2024ByYUVAL BARNEA
Major Asaf Dagan.

Jerusalem’s son brought home: A community mourns the loss of Hersh Goldberg-Polin - comment

Hersh Goldberg-Polin is returned to his family, but not in the way we so fervently hoped.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024ByERICA SCHACHNE
Last Sunday evening, having learned the news, hundreds of Jerusalemites – Anglos and Israelis of all ages, including leaders of Hakhel, the family’s synagogue – gathered at a Baka community center courtyard for a vigil.

'You're finally free': Mother of slain hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as thousands attend funeral

Before the funeral, thousands of mourners accompanied the family's convoy on foot in a march up to the cemetery.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rachel Goldberg-Polin lays her son Hersh to rest

Grief and normalcy collide: Israel mourns as school year begins - analysis

The impact of all of this on the national psyche is profound.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024ByHERB KEINON
Mourners react as they pay their respects to Yoram Metzger, one of the six hostages whose bodies were retrieved from Gazan captivity and brought to Israel in a military operation, at his funeral in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, August 22, 2024.