Obituaries

Obituary: Irvine Sellar

A man whose short stature belied a larger-than-life personality and a drive to match, and who had a huge capacity to bounce back quickly when life knocked him down.

Obituary: Jeffrey Ziles

Long- serving United Synagogue warden who worked very hard for the community, carrying out communal and religious activities with great charm and humour.

Obituary: Otto Deutsch

Otto was a dearly loved and much respected man. He captivated people from all communities, leaving a lasting impression of kindness, tolerance and endurance.

Obituary: David Rubinger

Obituary: Gerald Kaufman

Kaufman did not always run against the Jewish grain. In his younger days, he joined the Jewish Labour movement (Poale Zion) and, in the early 1970s, he was a close friend of former JC editor William Frankel

Obituary: Captain Solomon Levy MBE

A pillar of Gibraltar's Jewish community who worked tirelessly for tolerance, religious and racial harmony

Obituary: Rolf Noskwith

A German-born linguist and mathematician who was rejected for British Army service but played an invaluable rôle as a Bletchley Park codebreaker

Obituary: Philip Kingsley

Felix Franks

After writing seven volumes on the physical chemistry of aqueous solutions, Felix Franks, who has died aged 90, became an entrepreneur who developed innovative preservation technologies, notably freeze-drying.