Q : My siblings and I were born in Detroit,
but now all live out of town. We are coming
in for a family wedding and want to visit the
graves of our parents, grandparents and great
grandparents. How do we find out where they
are buried, or who conducted the funerals?
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SIDNEY WOLFSON, 85, of
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He is survived by his beloved wife,
Florence Wolfson; sons and daugh-
ters-in-laws, Gary and Darcy Wolfson
of Bloomfield Hills, Arthur and
Sherry Wolfson of Yorktown, Va.;
daughters and sons-in-law, Roberta
and John Lazar of Farmington Hills,
Phyllis and Michael Kushner of
Columbia, Md.; brother and sister-in-
A: We have been in business since 1941, so
we could possibly help, or Hebrew Memorial
(248-543-1622) might be able to. Also, check
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's community cemetery website,
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afael Eitan, a former Israel
Defense Forces chief of
staff, died the way he lived,
facing the storm alone. After Eitan
drowned Nov. 23, 2004, while braving
winter squalls to inspect a pier he built
off Ashdod port, friends and colleagues
voiced no surprise at the fate of the 75-
year - old former IDF chief
"He always said he wanted to die on
the battlefield, so I guess, in a way, he
got his wish," law-
maker Nehama
Ronen told Army
Radio.
Nicknamed
"Raful" and rarely
seen without his
trademark kibbutz
cap, Eitan was for
many Israelis the
Eitan
image of the old
sabra (native Israeli)
— always ready to match tough talk
with action.
But Eitan was forced to end his mili-
tary career after he was reprimanded
following the 1982 massacre of
Palestinian refugees by an Israeli-allied
Christian militia in the Sabra and
Shatila camps outside Beirut, Lebanon.
Born in Moshav Tel Adashim in
1929, Eitan as a boy led reprisal raids
against marauding Arabs. He joined the
Palmach, a Jewish militia in pre-state
Palestine, at age 16.
After the Israeli state was created, he
went on to serve in all its wars, leading
the country's only deployment of
troops by parachute, the 1956 opera-
tion against Egyptian forces in Sinai's
Mitla Pass.
When he was chief of staff, Eitan put
a premium on discipline, stamping out
what he saw as the slovenliness that had
crept into the ranks in the 1970s, and
insisting that troops wear berets at all
times. He was widely admired for inno-
vations that allowed the IDF to retain
its technological superiority over Arab
foes.
Like Sharon, who stepped down as
defense minister following the Sabra
and Shatila massacres, Eitan bounced
back as a right-wing politician.
Having formed Tehiya and Tsomet,
nationalist factions opposed to ceding
any land captured in the 1967 Six-Day
War in peace deals, Eitan joined the
coalition governments of Yitzhak
Shamir in 1988 and Benjamin
Netanyahu in 1996.
He served as agriculture and environ-
ment minister, but caused diplomatic
stirs with remarks such as the observa-
tion that an Israeli crackdown could
reduce Palestinians waging the first
intifada to the status of "drugged cock-
roaches in a bottle."
"His slurs against the Palestinians as a
collective were unacceptable, but
nonetheless I extend condolences to his
family," said Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli
Arab lawmaker.
Eitan quit politics in 1999 after his
party failed to win any Knesset seats in
the general election, returning to work
as an olive farmer, encouraging disad-
vantaged youths to gain professional
experience during their military service
and pursuing several construction proj-
ects, including the port at Ashdod.
"Raful never forgot his great love —
the land and labor. Thus, to our sor-
row, he met his end," Sharon said. "I
lost a comrade-in-arms and a friend."
Eitan is survived by his wife, Ofra
Meyerson, with whom he lived in
Herzliya, and three daughters. His two
sons died under tragic circumstances —
one of illness at age 10, and the other
in an accident while training as an
Israel Air Force pilot.