Funeral

Iran prepares to bury slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with week of mass mourning

Iran's supreme leader was killed by US and Israeli strikes in their first attack of the war and the funeral events will begin over the weekend in Tehran, with mass processions planned next week.

PEOPLE RIDE motorcycles near a billboard with an image of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2026.
Abe Foxman delivering remarks on April 23, 2025, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Inset, Foxman with the nanny who hid him during the Holocaust, Bronislawa Kurpi.

At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust

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A panoramic view of the Mount of Olives

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Reciting Kaddish for the holy

A moving project in memory of the victims of October 7 and the "Iron Swords" War.

 Family and friends of Israeli soldier Captain Liron Snir mourn at his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 22, 2023, he was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip

This is why Israel plans to bury hundreds of cars, with ashes and blood stains

To preserve the sanctity of those murdered by Hamas, for the first time since the establishment of the state, they decided to bury the vehicles.

 Rabbi Yaakov Rose of ZAKA Tel Aviv examining the cars with remains in southern Israel

‘She was light itself’: Family, friends, unit mourn Rose Lubin

Lubin was murdered in a stabbing attack carried out by a resident of east Jerusalem near Herod's Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem.

 People gather for the funeral of Israeli-American Border Police officer Sgt. Rose Ida (Elisheva) Lubin.

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.