Obituaries

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Dombey Memorial

A memorial service honoring Fayga P.
Dombey will be held 8 p.m. Monday, June
2, at Yeshivat Akiva, 21100 W 12 Mile,
Southfield.
Mrs. Dombey, beloved wife of Dave
Dombey, passed away on April 6, 2008,
with burial in Israel.
Fayga was a founder of both Yeshivat
Akiva and the former Young Israel of
Oak-Woods, which merged with the Young
Israel of Greenfield to form the Young
Israel of Oak Park. She served on all three
boards of directors for decades. She was
the president of the Young Israel Council
of Metropolitan Detroit until her passing.
She served as director of volunteer ser-
vices for the Jewish Family Service until
her retirement but kept active as both a
board member and co-chairman of the
Outreach Committee to the Orthodox
Community.
Mrs. Dombey was a long serving
member of the board of directors of the
Women's Division of the Jewish Federation

of Metropolitan Detroit. She was also
a co-founder of COJAR (Council of
Orthodox Jewish Active Retirees), a Jewish
Community Center program.
She practiced what she preached by
serving for many years as a volunteer for
Meals on Wheels and Yad Ezra.
Besides her husband of 59 years, Fayga
Dombey is survived by daughters Sharon
Baseman (David) of Huntington Woods
and Lynn Meyers (Jason) of Jerusalem
as well as 13 grandchildren and 16 great-
grandchildren. She was also the mother of
the late Rabbi Moshe Chaim Dombey who
predeceased her by two years.

Elephant Expert
Killed In Ethiopia

Professor Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani, a
world-renowned researcher of elephants
at Addis Ababa University, was among the
victims of a minibus explosion May 20 in
the Ethiopian capital's downtown area.

Prof. Shoshani held both U.S. and Israeli
citizenship and his wife, Sandra, resides
in Bloomfield Hills. Burial was planned in
Israel.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it
remains unclear whether the explosion
was terror-related or if Prof. Shoshani was
aboard the minibus when it exploded.
Three people were killed and nine oth-
ers were injured in the explosion, which
occurred as the minibus was traveling on
the road which runs between the Hilton
Hotel and the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry.
The explosion appears to be the latest
in a series of terror attacks the Ethiopian
capital has seen, which the government
has blamed on extremists who are sup-
ported by neighboring country Eritrea.
Born in Tel Aviv, he became interested
in elephants after reading Burma Boy by
Willis Lindquist. His primary research
was the evolutionary biology of elephants,
their anatomy and physiology and how to
apply this knowledge to the understanding
of elephant behavior and ecology.
Prof. Shoshani taught at Wayne State

Professor Hezy Shoshani

University in Detroit, for about 25 years
and in recent years was a research assis-
tant at Cranbrook Institute of Science in
Bloomfield Hills. In 1977, he established
the Elephant Research Foundation (an
international nonprofit organization) and
was editor of its publication Elephant.
He published some 200 scientific and
some popular articles and was the editor
of two books.
In 2003, on an expedition to search
elephants, Prof. Shoshani almost lost his
life as one of his beloved research subjects
charged him, but miraculously he escaped
with only minor injuries.
He was and is the prime mover in cre-
ating the Elephant Research Foundation
Library and in the decision to move that
collection to Wayne State University
Libraries.

— Ynet.com and other sources

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