2006 in Israel - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

• January 28 – Yitzchak Kaduri (b. c.1899), Iraqi-born estimated aged 107, a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist.
• February 14 – Shoshana Damari (born 1923), Yemeni-born "Queen of Israeli song" – pneumonia.
• April 13 – Michael Shir (born 1923), Polish-born Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine, Ezbeoni.
• April 26 – Professor Yuval Ne'eman (born 1925), Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency and former science minister.
• April 28 – Ben-Zion Orgad (born 1926), German-born Israeli composer – cancer.
• May 11 – Yossi Banai (born 1932), Israeli singer and actor.
• May 19 – Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (born 1906), aged 99, Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born founder of the Israeli Labor Party.
• May 23 – Bracha Eden (born 1928), Israeli pianist – brain hemorrhage.
• June 7 – Joseph Dorfman (born 1940), Soviet-born Russian-Israeli composer of contemporary classical music and a Shostakovich scholar.
• June 25 – Eliyahu Asheri (born 1988), Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists.
• June 25 – Gad Navon (born 1922), Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli military rabbi – cancer.
• July 25 – Ezra Fleischer (born 1928), Romanian-born Israeli poet and professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• August 21 – S. Yizhar (born 1916), Israeli author – heart disease.
• August 29 – Benjamin Rawitz-Castel (born 1946), Israeli pianist – battered.
• November 21 – Eliezer Waldenberg (born 1915), Israeli Haredi rabbi.
• December 16 – Pnina Salzman (born 1922), Israeli classical pianist – natural causes.
• December 28 – Gershon Shaked (born 1929), Austrian-born Israeli author and professor of Hebrew literature.
• December 31 – Ya'akov Hodorov (born 1927), Israeli football goalkeeper – stroke.