Obituaries
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HANLEY YORKE, 66, of West Bloomfield,
died July 18, 2008.
An executive in the industrial container
business, he owned Terminal Steel and
Equipment Company on the east side of
Detroit. He was active with Temple Israel
and was an associate of Hadassah.
Mr. Yorke is survived by his wife, Susan
Yorke of West Bloomfield; son and daugh-
ter-in-law, Kevin and Kimberly Yorke of
Stevensville, Mont.; daughters and sons-
in-law, Lisa and Michael Funderburk of
Stafford, Va., Jenifer and Wayne Segal of
Birmingham; grandchildren, Mia, Shana,
Shelby Funderburk, Anna and Lauren
Segal; brother and sister-in-law, Douglas
and Sally Yorke; brother-in-law and sister-
in-law, Merrill and Sharon Fishman; many
nieces and nephews.
Mr. Yorke was the devoted son of the late
Max and the late Marion Yorke; cherished
son-in-law of the late Sam and the late
Evelyn Fishman.
Interment at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made to
Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West
Bloomfield, MI 48323, www.temple-israel.
org., or Hadassah Greater Detroit Chapter,
5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield,
MI 48323, www.detroit.hadassah.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
Conversion Crisis
Jerusalem/JTA — Ehud Olmert pledged to
solve an Israeli conversion crisis prompted
by a rabbinical dispute. The prime min-
ister gave the government four months
to address a recent decision by Israel's
Rabbinical High Court to fire Rabbi Haim
Druckman as head of a state-sponsored
Conversion Committee.
In dismissing Druckman, who was con-
sidered relatively lenient by the standards
of Orthodox conversion, the court said it
would annul thousands of conversions of
immigrants from the former Soviet Union
that he had approved.
Olmert said such immigrants "include
the best of our soldiers, the cream of our
academia, and so the issue of conversion
in Israel tops the national agenda!'
Bulldozer Rampage
Jerusalem/JTA — In an apparent replay of
an attack nearly three weeks ago, an Arab
construction worker rampaged through
Jerusalem on a bulldozer, crushing cars
and hitting a bus before being shot dead
by Israeli border police.
At least 18 people were injured in the
attack early Tuesday afternoon, including
a 9-month-old baby and his mother. One
of the injured was in serious condition.
Detroit Teen Mission participants were
in the Central Galilee, far from the area
of the attack, according to Amy Neistein
of Federation's Israel and Overseas
Department who is traveling with the group.
"We are up north, safe and sound:'
Neistein said. "We are having an amazing
experience in the region!'
The driver was identified as Ghasan
Abu-Tir, 22, of eastern Jerusalem. He held
an Israeli identification card. His relative,
Palestinian Authority parliament member
Muhammad Abu-Tir, is jailed in Israel,
Ynet News reported.
The attack in the Yemin Moshe neigh-
borhood was similar to a July 2 attack
when a bulldozer driver from eastern
Jerusalem killed three Israelis.
Israeli police sealed off routes leaving
Jerusalem after the attack in an attempt to
catch two suspected accomplices.
The attack, at the corner of Keren
Hayesod and King David streets in the
heart of Jerusalem, took place within sight
of the luxury King David Hotel, which will
host U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during
the presumptive presidential candidate's
visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority
which was set to begin Tuesday evening.
The bulldozer driver chased the No. 13
bus while raising the shovel of his front-
end loader, the driver of the bus told the
Ha'aretz newspaper.
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said
the bulldozer attacks could affect future
hiring of Arabs from eastern Jerusalem.
Story Development Editor Keri Guten
Cohen contributed to this report.
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