During the Second Intifada, the former PM's spokesman forever changed how Israel interfaced with the international press, foreseeing the major role it would play in future wars

Fighter-turned-whistle-blower embodied the individual of conscience, answering only to his sense of right and wrong even if price was his own freedom

Orphaned at 15, the 5-foot-5 weightlifter made his way to the UK where he was lightweight champion in 1955, 1956 and 1958, and represented the country in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics

The famously Jewish New Yorker shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as 'Catch-22,' 'The Chosen' and 'The Power Broker'

The academic fled Nazi Germany as a child, fought for Israel's independence, and gained acclaim in the US, where he advised presidents

Death of former Italian premier, whose use of his media empire and wealth to propel political career inspired both loyalty and hatred, comes days after he was admitted to hospital

Robertson turned a small Virginia radio station into the globally influential Christian Broadcasting Network, vied for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988

Songwriter, who had a decades-long writing partnership with husband Barry Mann, best known for penning 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'

Despite focusing on ultra-Orthodox education, Edelstein found himself at political helm of Ashkenazi Jewry where he championed coexistence and practicality

The late head of the Bnei Brak-based Ponevezh Yeshiva was a spiritual guide of the United Torah Judaism party