Leftist terrorist murdered two Israel Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred on May 21, outside the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals at the Capital Jewish Museum, hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The two staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, a German-Israeli dual citizen, who had immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were shot at close range by a gunman [...]

Don Mischer, an award-winning producer and director who brought meticulous preparation to live television extravaganzas like award shows, Olympic opening ceremonies, Super Bowl halftime performances, and the 2004 Democratic National Convention, died April 11 in Los Angeles. He was 85. Mr. Mischer was the executive producer of NBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremony at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City; the Primetime Emmy Awards numerous times between 1993 and 2019; and the Tony [...]

Aliza Magen, who spent more than 40 years working for the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, eventually serving as deputy under three of its directors, making her the highest-ranking woman in the organization’s history, died on April 14 in Jerusalem. She was 87. She participated in some of the Mossad’s biggest operations, although many of the details of her work remain classified. It was often hard for a woman to rise in the ranks of [...]

Walter Frankenstein, who with his family hid from the Nazis for more than two years by taking refuge in abandoned buildings, cars, forests, craters, brothels, and wherever they could survive, died on April 21 in Stockholm, where he had lived since 1956. He was 100. To support his family, he worked as a mason, which brought him into contact with Adolf Eichmann, a pivotal architect of the Final Solution, who threatened him as he did [...]

Herbert J. Gans, an eminent sociologist who studied urban and suburban life in America, died on April 21 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he became one of the nation’s most influential social critics. He taught at Columbia and other leading universities for 54 years, wrote a dozen books and hundreds of articles that shaped the thinking of government and corporate policymakers, colleagues in sociology, and a wide [...]

Leonard Zeskind, who tracked right-wing hate groups and who foresaw that anti-immigrant ideologies would move to the mainstream of American politics, died on April 15 at his home in Kansas City, at 75. Mr. Zeskind spent decades studying white nationalism, documenting how its leading voices had shifted their vitriol from Black Americans to nonwhite immigrants. His 2009 book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream, resulted [...]