Posts Tagged ‘passes away’
Breaking: Former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir dead at 96
Former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir passed away at the age of 96 on Saturday at the care home in which he resided in Tel Aviv.Shamir served as Israel's seventh prime minister from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. via Former PM Yitzhak Shamir passes away at ... JPost - National News. Shamir, who was born in 1915 in Ruzhany, served in Israel's Shin Bet, and later on as Speaker of the Knesset as part of the Likud and Israel's Foreign Minister before succeeding Menachem Begin as Prime Minister in 1983. In response to the death, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Shamir "led Israel with a deep loyalty to the nation, to the land and to the eternal values of the Jewish people." via Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir dies at 96 Israel News | Haaretz Daily [...]
Former WABC Progressive Talkshow host Lynn Samuels dies Christmas Eve at 69
Editors Note: Lynn Samuels was one 'of a kind'. She has the ability to make a conservative flaming angry but never held the Liberal party line. She was a free thinker who had enough criticism to go around no matter what position your found yourself on the political spectrum. She was heard late at night on 770 WABC New York all through the east coast. She ended up on Sirrus XM Radio Progressive XM Stars where she was able to set her tongue free. A little known fact about Samuels was her call screener for a time was was Matt Drudge. The radio waves will be a bit quieter, but even this writer will miss her distinctive New York voice, as we often tuned in to hear what Lynn was saying provocative. Years ago, when she was a left wing host on WABC, Lynn Samuels used to [...]
