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.

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

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

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


Haredi women launch site allowing people to send condolences to bereaved Israelis

The website includes most of the names of the more than 1,400 Israelis who were killed, with a few sentences of information, the date of the funeral, and the date of the shloshim.

An image from nachamuami.com showing some of those killed on October 7.

Israel is the only place we should want to be - opinion

From the moment I stepped off the plane from London to make this my permanent home, there was no going back.

 YOUTHS DANCE and wave the flag near Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem, after the start of the Gaza War.

Anglo-Israeli woman helps prepare victims of Hamas massacre for burial

Avigail Gimpel is now one of just a handful of women in Israel trained to do this kind of heart-wrenching work with terror victims.

 Each body represents a victim (Illustrative).

Family of east Jerusalem resident who was killed on October 7 talk about his death

In a conversation with KAN News, A'abed shared his distress over what he described as dismissive treatment from the authorities when he tried to locate his brother.

 Palestinians react as an Israeli military vehicle burns after it was hit by Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, at the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border, October 7, 2023.

An Israeli author was excited for his best friend’s wedding. After Oct. 7, it became a funeral

Since Golan’s wedding would instead be a funeral — which Jews traditionally hold as soon as possible after a person’s death — Gefen showed up at the airport on October 8, without a ticket in hand.

 (Illustrative) Israel police block a road, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, near Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.

How to conduct a Jewish wedding when Israel is still burying its dead?

If a funeral procession and wedding procession meet at a crossroads, which one has the right of way? The talmud says the wedding should lead. We must lead with life.

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Facing death up close: A man buries himself alive in a unique experience

Víctor Amela, a man in his 60s, lived through a mock funeral for an hour to gain a unique perspective on death, finding it to be a challenging and transformative experience.


'I grieved at a funeral in Israel this week. But not for too long — another was about to start'

The funeral of Yosef Malachi Guedalia, a ­­­22-year-old sergeant-major from the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan combat unit, was interrupted by air raid sirens.

 Sderot following the Oct. 7 attack

10,000 attend funeral of Brazilian olah after online call to action

10,000 people attended the funeral of Brazilian-Israeli lone soldier Bruna Valeanu, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at a music festival.

The funeral of Bruna Valeanu, who was killed as she attended a festival that was attacked by Hamas gunmen from Gaza that left at least 260 people dead, at her funeral in Petah Tikva, Israel, October 10, 2023.

Over 100 bodies found improperly stored in Colorado funeral home

The Fremont County sheriff described the scene at the funeral home as “horrific.”

 Police fence off the area outside Denver’s jail and courthouse in Colorado, US, September 26, 2020