Agnes Varis, American philanthropist, died from cancer he was , 81.

Agnes Varis (born Agnes Koulouvaris;) was founder and president of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals.

(January 11, 1930 – July 29, 2011)

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Varis was the only child of eight to attend college. She earned her degree in Chemistry and English from Brooklyn College. She attended New York University's Stern School of Business.
In 1970, aged 40, she started Agvar Chemicals and co-founded Marsam Pharmaceuticals in 1985. She became the founder and President of Aegis Pharmaceuticals in 1992. Ms. Varis was appointed by President Barack Obama to the PCAH committee, which encompassed 26 leading citizens from the private sector with an interest in and commitment to the humanities and the arts.
Its members also included twelve federal members whose agencies had cultural programs, such as the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.^[1]

Humanitarian causes

In 2004 Dr. Varis became involved with The Jazz Foundation of America. Her work with the Jazz Foundation includes providing funding and creating employment opportunities for America's elderly jazz and blues musicians.^[2]
Through her work in response to Hurricane Katrina, in 2006 the Jazz Foundation of America established the Agnes Varis/Musicians in the Schools Program, first reaching out to displaced New Orleans musicians and subsequently employing more than 1000 musicians in eight states, including some 120 elderly jazz and blues musicians performing free concerts in New York City public schools, hospitals and nursing homes.^[3] In 2009, then Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu, presented Varis with the coveted "Saint of the Century" Award at the Jazz Foundation of America's annual benefit concert, A Great Night in Harlem, at the Apollo Theater.^{[citation needed]}
She was a resident of New York City, and active in Democratic political campaigns. In 2004, she was the 24th largest individual contributor to 527 groups, donating over USD $2,000,000 to pro-Democrat groups. Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals NHL franchise and Washington Wizards NBA franchise was her cousin.^[4]

Death

Agnes Varis died at her home in New York City on July 29, 2011, aged 81.^[4] The cause of death was cancer.^[5]
Matthew James Perry Jr. (August 4, 1921 – July 29, 2011) was a United States federal judge.
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Perry was in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946, and then received a Bachelor of Science degree from South Carolina State College in 1948 and an LL.B. from South Carolina State College in 1951. He was in private practice in Spartanburg, South Carolina from 1951 to 1961, and in Columbia from 1961 to 1976. He defended Gloria Blackwell^[1] and her daughter Lurma Rackley.^[2] He led the successful court case to integrate Clemson University in 1963 and led a major South Carolina reapportionment case in 1972. He ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1974, but lost to Republican incumbent Floyd Spence.
Perry was the first African American lawyer from the Deep South to be appointed to the federal judiciary. In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed Perry to the United States Military Court of Appeals (now the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces) in Washington, D.C.
On July 5, 1979, Perry was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 19, 1979, and received his commission the following day, thereby becoming South Carolina's first African American federal judge. He assumed senior status on October 1, 1995.
The courthouse in Columbia, South Carolina, is named after him, although Senator Strom Thurmond wanted it named after himself.^[3]
Perry was found dead, aged 89, at his home on Sunday July 31, 2011 by a family member where his wife, Hallie, was reportedly in poor health. He was reported to have died on Friday after attending court that day.^[4]

 

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Takeshi Miyaji, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia) died he was , 45.

Takeshi Miyaji was a Japanese video game developer who founded the developent companies Game Arts (with his brother Yoichi Miyaji) and G-Mode died he was , 45.. He was best known as the creator of the Silpheed, GunGriffon and Grandia video game series.^[1] His work on the Lunar and Grandia series in particular had a major influence on the development of role-playing video games.^[2] He was the younger brother of Game Arts' CEO Yoichi Miyaji.

( December 22, 1965 – July 29, 2011)  

Biography

Takeshi began working programming for ASCII at the age of 15. He wrote a book on how to program while working for ASCII. At the age of 19, he co-founded Game Arts with his brother Yoichi. He was in charge of the Development Department of Game Arts for over the next 16 years. During that time, he acted as producer and director of various Games Arts titles, including Silpheed, GunGriffon and Grandia.^[3]
Silpheed (1986) was a shooter game notable its early use of real-time 3D polygonal graphics and a tilted third-person perspective.^[4] He also worked on Lunar: The Silver Star (1992), which was among the earliest role-playing video games to tell an engaging story through its audio and video presentation. After working on its sequel Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994), his most successful and memorable video game would be Grandia (1997), which featured an innovative battle system and a strong story. Grandia is considered one of the strongest role-playing games during the 32-bit era and had two sequels produced.^[2] His company Game Arts was also known for producing the early run and gun shooter Thexder (1985).^[5]
In 2000, Miyaji left Game Arts and founded G-Mode, a game developing company specializing in the emerging mobile phone market and served as the company's Executive Director. Takeshi died in 2011 at the age of 45 from an unspecified cause.^[3]

Works

• AX-6 (1982, PC-6001) - Lead Programmer of "Space Enemy"
• SX-2: Doitsu Afurika Sōkō Gundan (1984, PC-6001) - Game Design and Programmer
• Thexder (1985, PC) - Producer
• Silpheed (1986, PC) - Director
• Faria: A World of Mystery and Danger (1990, NES) - Program Director
• Harakiri (1990, PC) - Director
• Lunar: The Silver Star (1992, Sega CD) - Designer
• Tenka Fubu: Eiyū-tachi no Hōkō (1993, Sega CD) - Director
• Silpheed (1993, Sega CD) - Director
• Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (1994, Sega CD) - Designer
• GunGriffon (1996, Sega Saturn) - Director
• Grandia (1997, Sega Saturn, PlayStation) - Director
• GunGriffon II (1998, Sega Saturn) - Director
• Grandia II (2000, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2) - Producer/Executive Director

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Ivan Milas, Croatian politician died he was , 72.

Ivan Milas  was a Croatian lawyer and politician.

·         Milas was born in the village of Zmijavci near Imotski in Zagora, and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.

(October 18, 1939 – July 29, 2011)

·         Milas was close to Marko Veselica and was active in the Croatian Spring in the early 1970s. In 1972, the authorities of communist Yugoslavia charged Milas with "actions against the state", arrested and spent six months in jail awaiting trial.^[1] He was released to prepare his defense, and subsequently fled to Austria where he received the status of a refugee. Yugoslavia sought his apprehension, which Austrian courts denied. He was tried in absentia in Yugoslavia and received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.^[1]

·         In 1988 Milas met the Croatian historian and politician Franjo Tuđman and in August 1989 joined his newly formed Croatian Democratic Union. Milas received a passport to return to Croatia in February 1990^[1] and was elected to the Croatian Parliament in its first democratic elections.

·         During the first phase of the Croatian War of Independence between the summer of 1991 and the spring of 1992, Milas served as the Deputy Minister of Defence and Deputy Minister of Justice.^[1]

·         Milas was reelected in the 1992 election, and served as the Minister of Justice from June 6 to August 12, 1992 and was later vice-president in the Croatian Government, under Hrvoje Šarinić.^[2]

·         On May 28, 1995, President Tuđman awarded him with the Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir. Also in May 1995, the function of the Keeper of the State Seal (Croatian: Čuvar državnog pečata) was created,^[3] and President Tuđman named Milas to the position^[1][2] on May 6, 1995, where he remained until February 1, 2000. As of 2011 no other person was named to the position after Milas. Milas was elected to Sabor again in the October 1995 election.

·         Between 1996 and 2000 Milas was a member of the Council of the Croatian National Bank.^[1]

·         He was last elected to the Croatian Parliament in the Croatian parliamentary election, 2000, where he served until late 2003, when he retired from politics.^[1][2]

·         Milas gained considerable notoriety in the Croatian public after he publicly expressed his opinion that in the West, brain is valued in kilograms.^[4][5]

·         Ivan Milas died in Zmijavci at the age of 72.^[2]

 

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John Milton Yinger, American sociologist died he was , 95

John Milton Yinger  was an American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976-1977 died he was , 95. Yinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1942, and was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College.

(July 6, 1916 – July 28, 2011)

Biography

Yinger was born in Quincy, Michigan, in 1916.^[3] His parents, George and Emma Bancroft Yinger, were both Methodist ministers. He grew up with five brothers and two sisters. Under the direction of his father, he and various combinations of his siblings sang in hundreds of concerts as the Yinger Singers.
Yinger studied sociology at DePauw University, and continued to sing with his siblings. At university, was part of the athletics track team, running flat races and hurdles, at one point racing against Jesse Owens. After graduating from DePauw, Yinger received a master's degree from Louisiana State University and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. While he was a student at Wisconsin, he met his future bride, Winnie McHenry. There were married in 1941 and remained so for 61 years, until she died in 2002.

Career

Yinger began his professional career at Ohio Wesleyan University. He moved to Oberlin College in 1947 and remained there until he retired in 1987. In addition to being a professor of sociology and anthropology, Yinger was an author, writing 13 books and a number of journal articles. His textbook co-authored with George E. Simpson, Racial and Cultural Minorities, went through five editions and won the 1959 Anisfield-Wolf award for the best scholarly work on race relations. The award was shared with Martin Luther King, Jr..
Yinger's writing appeared in the 1960 American Sociological Review, in which he originated the concept of a "contraculture". He defined this as a group whose values contain "as a primary element, a theme of conflict with the values of the total society." Yinger's work on this topic culminated with the 1982 publication of his book, Countercultures: The Promise and Peril of a World Turned Upside Down.
Yinger was elected president of the American Sociological Association for 1976-77. He received honorary degrees from DePauw and Syracuse University and was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fellow of Clare Hall at Cambridge University.

Personal life

Yinger had three children; Susan, John, and Nancy. He had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He died in Oberlin, Ohio on July 28, 2011, with his son, John, at his side.

 

 

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Frank Bender, American forensic artist, died from pleural mesothelioma 70.

Francis Augustus "Frank" Bender was a world-renowned autodidact forensic artist and fine artist. His job was to make facial reconstructions of the dead and of fugitives, many of whom had, or still have, been on the run for a long time.^[1] He primarily worked in clay and then cast his pieces into plaster and painted them, but he has also aged fugitives using pastels. His most famous facial reconstruction case led to the arrest of John Emil List, whose case was shown on America's Most Wanted.


(June 16, 1941 – July 28, 2011)

Bender's artistry stemmed from his forensic work and was a blend of art and science. He created life-sized monuments in bronze for the African Burial Grounds in New York (using three of the actual skulls found on the site),^[4] a monument for slain police officers in New Jersey, a Holocaust obelisk.^[5]
Bender was one of the founding members of the Vidocq Society along with William Fleisher and Richard Walter.^[6] The Vidocq Society, named after Eugène François Vidocq, meets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and focuses on solving cold cases.^[7]
On May 13, 2008 Random House released The Girl With the Crooked Nose by Ted Botha, a book on Bender's life story intertwined with his most challenging case: the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez.^{[8][9][10][11]}
In August 2010 Penguin Books released The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo in which Frank Bender was a central character.^[12] It is based on the Vidocq Society of which Bender is a founder.
In 2009,^[13] Bender was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, a disease caused by prolonged exposure to asbestos from his time in the Navy, putting an end to a distinguished career.^[14]
Bender died on July 28, 2011 at his home in his native Philadelphia, aged 70, from pleural mesothelioma, a rare cancer that attacks the outer lining of the lungs.^[15]

 

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Gene McDaniels, American singer-songwriter died he was , 76.

Gene McDaniels  was an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.

(February 12, 1935 – July 29, 2011)

Biography

Born Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas City, Missouri, United States,^[1] McDaniels grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. As well as singing gospel music in church, he developed a love of jazz, and learned to play the saxophone and trumpet. After forming a singing group, the Echoes of Joy, later known as the Sultans, in his teens, he studied at the University of Omaha Conservatory of Music before joining the Mississippi Piney Woods Singers, with whom he toured in California. There, he began singing in jazz clubs, and came to the attention of Sy Waronker of Liberty Records.^[2][3]
After recording two unsuccessful singles and an album, he was teamed with producer Snuff Garrett, with whom he recorded his first hit, "A Hundred Pounds of Clay," which reached no. 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1961 and sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status.^[1] Its follow-up, "A Tear", was less successful but his third single with Garrett, "Tower of Strength," co-written by Burt Bacharach, reached no. 5 and won McDaniels his second gold record.^[2] "Tower of Strength" reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart, losing out to Frankie Vaughan's chart-topping version.^[4]
In 1962 he appeared performing in the movie, It's Trad, Dad!, directed by Richard Lester. He continued to have minor hit records, including "Chip Chip", "Point Of No Return" and "Spanish Lace" each in 1962, but his suave style of singing gradually became less fashionable. In 1965 he moved to Columbia Records, with little success, and in 1968, after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, he left the US to live in Denmark and Sweden, where he concentrated on songwriting. He returned to the US in 1971, and recorded thereafter as Eugene McDaniels.^[2]
After the late 1960s, McDaniels turned his attention to a more black consciousness form, and his best-known song in this genre was "Compared to What," a jazz-soul protest song made famous (and into a hit) by Les McCann and Eddie Harris on their album, Swiss Movement, and also covered by Roberta Flack, Ray Charles, Della Reese, John Legend, The Roots and others.^[3] McDaniels also attained the top spot on the chart as a songwriter. In 1974, Roberta Flack reached #1 with McDaniels' "Feel Like Makin' Love" (not to be confused with the Bad Company song of the same name), which won a Grammy Award. McDaniels also received a BMI award for outstanding radio airplay; at the time of the award, the song had already had over five million plays.
In the early 1970s, McDaniels recorded on the Atlantic label, which released the McDaniels albums, Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse and Outlaw.
In the 1980s, McDaniels recorded an album with the percussionist Terry Silverlight, which has not yet been released. In 2005, McDaniels released Screams & Whispers on his own record label. In 2009, it was announced that he is to release a new album, Evolution's Child, which featured his lyrics, and a number of songs composed or arranged with pianist Ted Brancato. Some of the songs featured jazz musician Ron Carter on concert bass.
McDaniel's "Jagger the Dagger" was featured on the Tribe Vibes breakbeat compilation album, after it had been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.
McDaniels also appeared in films. They included the 1962 film, It's Trad, Dad!, (released in the United States as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm), which was directed by Richard Lester. He also appeared in 1963's The Young Swingers. McDaniels is briefly seen singing in the choir in the 1974 film, Uptown Saturday Night.
McDaniels lived as a self-described "hermit" in the state of Maine. In 2010, he launched series of YouTube videos on his website, featuring his music and thoughts on some of his creations.
McDaniels died on July 29, 2011 at his home.^[5]

Discography

Studio albums

• In Times Like These - Liberty (1960)
• Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue - Liberty (1960)
• A Hundred Pounds Of Clay - Liberty (1961)
• Gene McDaniels Sings Movie Memories - Liberty (1962)
• Hit After Hit - Liberty (1962)
• Tower Of Strength - Liberty (1962)
• Spanish Lace - Liberty (1963)
• The Wonderful Word Of Gene McDaniels - Liberty (1963)
• Outlaw - Atlantic (1970)
• Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse - Atlantic (1971)
• Natural Juices - Ode (1975)
• Screams & Whispers - Sky Forest Music (2005)

Produced by Eugene McDaniels

• The First Time - Carri Coltrane, 1999
• Flamenco Sketches - Carri Coltrane, 1998

Chart singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions
		US Pop[6]	US R&B[7]	UK[8]
1961	"A Hundred Pounds of Clay"	3	11	-
	"A Tear"	31	-	-
	"Tower of Strength"	5	5	49
1962	"Chip Chip"	10	-	-
	"Funny"	99	-	-
	"Point of No Return"	21	23	-
	"Spanish Lace"	31	-	-
1963	"It's A Lonely Town"	64	-	-
1972	"River" as Universal Jones	115	-	-

Filmography

• It's Trad, Dad! (a.k.a. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, 1962)
• The Young Swingers (1963)

 

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John Edward Anderson, American businessman and philanthropist, died from pneumonia he was , 93.

John Edward Anderson was the president and sole shareholder of Topa Equities, Ltd. Anderson oversaw more than 40 wholly owned subsidiaries in diverse industries such as agriculture, automotive dealerships, insurance, real estate, oil, and wholesale beverage distribution. In 2006, he was ranked #189 on the Forbes Magazine list of the 400 richest Americans, with a net worth of $1.9 billion.^[2] He made charitable donations to the University of California, Los Angeles, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and other Southern California educational institutions during his lifetime.^[3] Anderson died from pneumonia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

(September 12, 1917 – July 29, 2011)

Early years

Anderson was born on September 12, 1917 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[3] He was the son of a barber.^[4] Anderson was the valedictorian of his high school class.^[4] Anderson also earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America in 1931.^[5][6] He attended UCLA from 1936 to 1940, playing on the ice hockey team,^[7] and graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in business administration.^[8] While at UCLA, he was a member of the fraternity Beta Theta Pi.^[9] He then attended Harvard Business School on scholarship, graduating with a MBA after World War II had broken out.^[4] While at Harvard, he was a George Fisher Baker Scholar.^[10] Anderson entered the military on the staff of an admiral, and passed his CPA exam while in the Navy.^[4] Anderson continued his education after the war, earning his JD from Loyola Law School in 1950.^[10][11] He graduated first in his class at Loyola, and was offered a full-time teaching position.^[4] For the next 25 years, Anderson taught at the law school in mornings and evenings while he worked at his law firm.^[4]

Family life

In 1942, Anderson married his UCLA sweetheart, Margaret Stewart, and they had five children.^[4] Margaret died of cancer in 1965, and he married his current wife Marion in 1967.^[4] His daughter Debbie died at the age of seventeen in a car accident in 1969.^[4] Anderson's son John, Jr. is an executive vice presidents in Topa Equities, Ltd., his daughter Judith manages the agricultural ranch in Ojai, California. His sons also manage the family's beverage distribution and automotive businesses. He resided in the East Gate Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California.^[2][12] Anderson has 15 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.^[4] His wife Marion runs the Marion & John E. Anderson Foundation charity.^[4]

Business life

Anderson was the founding partner of Kindel & Anderson law firm in 1953.^[9][11] On April 1, 1956, Anderson founded Ace Beverage Co. with exclusive rights to distribute Budweiser in Los Angeles, California.^[2] In 1980, he founded Topa Properties, Ltd., which owns a sizeable amount of property in the US Virgin Islands.^[13] His portfolio included 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m²) of commercial property and 4,500 residential units.^[2] He was a chairman of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, a trustee and former president of Saint John's Hospital and Health Center Foundation and trustee of Claremont McKenna College.^[8][10] Anderson was on the Board of Visitors at the Anderson School of Management, which is named after him.^[14] Anderson also taught several business courses at UCLA.^[8]

Philanthropy

Among his charitable endeavors, Anderson and his wife Marion donated more than $50 million for the construction of a new building for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where Marion Anderson is a board member. Beginning in 1987, the Andersons donated $42 million to the University of California, Los Angeles.^[15] The UCLA Graduate School of Management was later renamed the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Awards

• 1985 — Distinguished Service Award, Loyola Law School^[10]
• 1987 — UCLA Graduate School of Management was renamed the John E. Anderson School of Management after he donated $15 million^[16]
• 1987 — Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year^[10]
• 1988 — Outstanding Individual Philanthropist on National Philanthropy Day^[10]
• 1995 — UCLA Alumnus of the Year^[10]
• 1995 — UCLA Medal^[10]
• 2002 — Master Entrepreneur of the Year^[10]
• 2002 — John E. Anderson Distinguished Alumnus Award, UCLA John E. Anderson School of Management^[10]
• 2003 — Business Person of the year, Business Hall of Fame^[10]
• 2004 — Humanitarian Award, National Conference for Community and Justice^[8]
• Unk — Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

·         Elazar Abuhatzeira (9 August 1948 – 29 July 2011) was an Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar."

·         He was born in Rissani, Morocco to Meir and Simcha Abuhatzeira, was the grandson of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, and the brother of Rabbi David Chai Abuhatzeira of Nahariya.

·         He made aliyah to Israel in 1966, remaining in Beersheba, where he ran a yeshiva.

·         Abuhatzeira was known for his work and influence with business and political leaders, as well as his study of Kabbalah. Abuhatzeira, who had studied at Porat Yosef Yeshiva, had a following as a spiritual leader.

·         He was one of Israel's leading kabbalists, and appeared in a list of the country's wealthiest people, with estimated assets of $80 million in 2011.^[1]

·         Abuhatzeira was known for wearing a cloak whose long hood covered most of his face, reportedly so he would not see any "immodest images of women". He had a tunnel dug between his home in Beersheba and the yeshiva he headed, where he received believers.^[2][3]

Fraud and tax evasion claims

·         In 1997, a investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz led by the journalist Yossi Bar-Moha, linked several incidents of corruption to Abuhatzeira. The articles further claimed that Abuhatzeira tried to impress people, persuaded them to pay him in exchange for a blessing, and threatened them with a curse if necessary. ^[4] The 1997 report claimed that Abuhatzeira had sold land designated for a religious girls school instead of building the school, and was evading property tax in Beer Sheva.^[5] Bar-Moha discovered that the Rabbi's bank account contained NIS 250 million in gifts and contributions.^[6]

·         The articles prompted a police investigation against Abuhatzeira. In 2003, Abuhatzeira was ordered to pay NIS 100 million to the Israeli Income tax on money he received from followers, but in the end reached settlement to pay NIS 20 million to charitable organizations.^[7][8]

·         By 2004, Bar Moha claimed that the Rabbi's income had grown to NIS 500 million (USD 141 million in 2004 values), and he filed a joint petition with the Progressive Judaism Movement to the Israeli Supreme Court, demanding the tax settlement to be cancelled. The petition has been dismissed. ^[6]

·         In 2009, a man was indicted for threatening to kill Abuhatzeira, claiming that the rabbi made him a medical promise that hadn't come true.^[1]

·         In 2010 Rabbi Abuhatzeira has been accused by New York Jews of charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange promised miracles that never came to fruition ^[4] Yossi Bar Moha, the journalist who investigated the Rabbi in 1997, claimed that "Elazar Abuhatzeira is a charlatan, con man and impostor who takes advantage of people's innocence, exploits them and brings to the verge of poverty". One of the students of the Rabbi defended him, saying that the Rabbi is humble and modest, and would never do such a thing.^[5] Other disciples acknowledge that the rabbi was wealthy, but insisted he used his wealth for the poor, citing, for instance, a huge house owned by the rabbi which included a soup kitchen where hundreds of poor people were fed on a daily basis.^[1]

·         Due to investigation by the prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, Abuhatzeira stopped traveling to the United States. ^[1]

Death

·         Elazar Abuhatzeira was murdered on 28 July 2011 in his Beersheba yeshiva, while hosting guests for consultation. According to an initial police investigation, the rabbi was stabbed in the upper body after receiving the killer for a private audience. The attacker, 42-year old Asher Dahan of El'ad, was said to have been unhappy with marital advice the rabbi had given him. Dahan stabbed Abuhatzeira in the upper body before being subdued by his students, who handed him over to police. Magen David Adom personnel attempted to recuscitate him before rushing him by ambulance to Soroka Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.^[3][9]

·         Abuhatzeira's funeral was held in Jerusalem on 29 July, and the rabbi was buried on the Mount of Olives. The funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people, including Israel's chief rabbis, haredi ministers, and Knesset members. Euologies were delivered at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva and the Jerusalem neighborhood of Geula.^[10]

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