Jewish obituaries this week on In My Heart

Jewish obituaries roundup 2

Paul Wasserman, 73, U.S., celebrity publicist, Nov. 18

Ido Zoldan, 29, Israel, contractor, terror victim, Nov. 19

Ido Zoldan, 29, contractor, Israel, Nov. 19

Update, Dec. 3, 2007: IDF announces arrest of suspects in Zoldan killing (See at end)

Ido Zoldan, 29, a resident of the Jewish town of Shavei Shomron in the disputed West Bank (Samaria), died Monday, Nov. 19, after being shot four times by Palestinian gunmen. Zoldan was driving home from an evening studying Jewish texts at a friend’s house.

Zoldan had postponed army service to study at a yeshiva in the Judean Hills community of Beit El but later became an officer in an elite Israel Defense Forces unit and served in the assault of Jenin in 2002 during the Palestinian intifada.

Amatzia Haeytan, Zoldan’s brother-in-law, told a newspaper Zoldan taught his fellow soldiers, most of whom were secular, the words to a song based on a verse from the book of Judges that tells how Samson, blinded and on the verge of despair, begs God to grant him one last victory against the Philistines.