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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IDF investigating if Israeli soldier was killed by friendly fire - report

IDF soldier St.-Sgt. David Yehuda Yitzhak was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Mt. Herzl, Wednesday evening.

JULY 5, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak.

Eli shooting victim Nahman Shmuel laid to rest in Shilo

Nahman Shmuel, Harel Masoud, Elisha Entman and Ofer Feirman were murdered in a shooting terror attack in Eli on Tuesday.

JUNE 21, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man reacts, as friends and family mourn 17-year-old Israeli Nachman Shmuel Mordoff, who was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack along with three other Israelis near the settlement of Eli, at his funeral in Shilo in the West Bank, on June 21, 2023.

TikTok Dad fakes death, arrives at funeral to prank loved ones

“It proves who really cares about me. Those who didn’t come did contact me to meet up. So in a way, I did win,” the TikToker explained.

JUNE 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TikTok logo

14 Days: Soldiers killed

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

JUNE 16, 2023BySTEVE LINDE
The three IDF soldiers who were killed in a terrorist attack on the Egyptian border.

Woman pronounced dead in Ecuador 'comes back to life', knocks on coffin at funeral

In Ecuador, a family dealing with the grief of loss was met with the ultimate surprise - their loved one was still alive.

JUNE 14, 2023ByWALLA!, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A 76-year-old woman, who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador's Babahoyo, shocked her family when she knocked on her coffin during her wake on June 9.

Blast tears through mosque at Afghanistan local deputy governor funeral

The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday.

JUNE 8, 2023ByREUTERS
A man walks past the site of a suicide attack along the roadside in Faizabad district of Badakhshan province on June 6, 2023

Airport error returns body of deceased Irish citizen to Greece

The family had to re-arrange the funeral as the handling company quickly moved to locate the missing coffin.

JUNE 5, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Dublin Airport

Israeli hospital: Five miscarried embryos kept in a lab for years, families unaware

Miscarried embryos in Israel are sent to a lab for an examination and then sent for burial without a funeral or ceremony.

MAY 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An embryo week 9-10

On Jerusalem Day two years ago, a funeral was held in the capital amid street riots

A bus was hired for family members to go to the graveside for burial and further psalms. The reserved private tour bus was equipped with reinforced windows to protect from rock-throwing.

MAY 19, 2023ByHEDDY BREUER ABRAMOWITZ
US ARMY cartographer Irving Abramowitz in Nome, Alaska, 1945.

Djerba synagogue shooting: Aviel Hadad will be buried on Friday in Netivot

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it is in contact with Aviel's family in Israel and is helping them during these "difficult times."

MAY 12, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
A Jewish worshipper prays during a pilgrimage to the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba April 28, 2013