page_title: 2013 in Israel
section_title: Notable deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 in Israel / Notable deaths
caption_attribution_description: עברית: הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ"ל. צולם בבית הכנסת שמתחת לביתו.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2013 in Israel.
context_section_description: January 1 – Yaakov Friedman (born 1928), Sadigura Hasidic dynasty Rebbe and member of the Agudat Yisrael's Council of Torah Sages
  January 2 – Zaharira Harifai (born 1929), Israeli actress
  January 8 – Zvi Yavetz (born 1925), Israeli historian and Israel Prize laureate
  January 14 – Yehudith Birk (born 1926), Israeli biochemist (Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor)
  January 18 – Ron Nachman (born 1942), Israeli politician and mayor of Ariel
  January 21 – Zina Harman (born 1914), Israeli politician
  February 6 – Menachem Elon (born 1923), Israeli jurist and author on Jewish law
  February 10 – David Hartman (born 1931), Jewish author and philosopher
  February 10 – Sara Braverman (born 1918), member of the Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine, was one of the first female fighters whom served in the Palmach, and the founding member of the IDF Women's Corps
  February 17 – Shmulik Kraus (born 1935), Israeli actor and musician
  March 4 – Rabbi Menachem Froman (born 1945), Orthodox Jewish rabbi, peace activist and poet
  March 16 – Marina Solodkin (born 1952), Russian-born Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1996–2013), stroke
  April 2 – Vardimos Zeiler (born 1933), Israeli judge and head of various national public committees
  April 5 – Amnon Dankner (born 1946), Israeli publicist and author
  April 9 – Mordechai Mishani (born 1945), Israeli politician
  April 11 – Ram Karmi (born 1931), Israeli architect
  April 12 – Ya'akov Yosef (born 1946), Israeli rabbi and politician
  April 14 – Efi Arazi (born 1937), Israeli businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
  April 15 – Benjamin Fain (born 1930), Israeli physicist and refusenik
  April 29 – Pesah Grupper (born 1924), Israeli politician and former Minister of Agriculture
  May 2 – Dvora Omer (born 1932), Israeli author
  May 5 – Menachem Yedid (born 1918), Israeli politician
  May 21 – Pnina Mor (born 1951), Israeli model
  May 23 – Michael Lev (born 1917), Israeli writer
  May 25 – Hanan Azran (born 1951), Israeli journalist and television host
  June 8 – Yoram Kaniuk (born 1930), Israeli author
  June 10 – Yitzhak Shimoni (born 1926), Israeli editor, radio broadcaster and TV host
  June 11 – Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth (born 1927), author of a two-volume Hebrew language treatise "Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah"
  June 19 – Lt. General Aryeh Ivtsan (born 1928), the 8th Israeli chief of police
  June 21 – Uzi Meshulam (born 1952), Rabbi of Yemeni origin who became known for leading an armed standoff in 1994 as part of his struggle to expose the Yemenite Children Affair.
  August 2 – Alla Kushnir, 71, Russian–born Israeli chess Woman Grandmaster
  August 4 – Yitzhak Berman, 100, Ukrainian-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1977–1984), Speaker (1980–1981), Minister of Energy and Water Resources (1981–1982)
  August 6 – Ze'ev Ben-Haim, 105, Israeli linguist
  August 17 – Yehudit Arnon, 87, Israeli dancer, choreographer and dance company founder, winner of Israel Prize (1998)
  August 20 – Gabriel Balachsan, 37, Israeli rock musician and songwriter
  October 7 – Ovadia Yosef, 93, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and foremost authority on Jewish law
  November 26 – Arik Einstein, 74, Israeli singer-songwriter, his songs were described as the "soundtrack of Israel"
  December 3 – Sefi Rivlin, 66, Israel Stand up and actor
caption: Ovadia Yosef
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