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JENNIE TAYLOR, 99,

of Southfield, died Jan.
15, 2015.
She is survived
by her daughters
and sons-in-law,
Barbara and Michael
Byer , Nancy Yost,
Taylor
Marsha (the late
Sam) Barenbaum and
Susan Taylor; grand-
children, Lisa (Steve) Pilloff, Michelle
(Erik) Bomar, Josh (Rebecca) Cascade,
Jerry (Linda) Barenbaum, Jamie (Kelli)
Barenbaum, Marty Barenbaum, Ari
(Amy) Byer and Elana (Joel) Byer
Bollig; great-grandchildren, Alex, Max,
Ruby, Paul, Sloane, Aaron, Julia, Caitlin,
Carter, Hannah, Jillian, Jacob and Ellie.
Mrs. Taylor was the beloved wife of
the late Dr. Aaron Taylor; sister of the
late Gertrude (the late Jack) Nater.
Interment was held at the Clover
Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham.
Contributions may be made to a char-
ity of one's choice. Arrangements by
Dorfman Chapel.

EVELYN WISHNETSKY, 93, of

Southfield, died Jan. 12, 2015.
She is survived by her daughters
and son-in-law, Dr. Terry Edelstein of
New York, N.Y., and Ellen Wishnetsky
Mueller and Marshall Mueller of
Portland, Ore.; grandchildren, Adam
and Lizzie Edelstein, Hannah Mueller
and Eddie Abadi; great-granddaughter,
Elena Abadi; sisters-in-law, Nesia
Hordes of Israel, Myra Dromi, also of
Israel, Myra Wishnetsky.
Mrs. Wishnetsky was the beloved
wife of the late Edward Wishnetsky; the
cherished mother of the late Richard
Wishnetsky; the loving sister of the late
Herbert Hordes of Israel and the late
Earl Hordes; the devoted daughter of the
late William and the late Bella Hordes.
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
to Jewish National Fund, 60 Revere
Drive, Suite 840, Northbrook, IL 60062,
www.jnf.org. Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.

call, he warned that terrorist networks
first established by Iran in several South
American countries in the 1980s and
1990s were still in place. As throughout
his investigation into the AMIA bomb-
ing, Nisman said he continued to receive
intermittent death threats, by phone and
email. "I report them to the authorities:'
he said simply.
Twenty-six years ago, 270 people were
killed when a bomb exploded aboard
Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland — the single worst act of ter-
rorism ever carried out on British ter-
ritory. A deeply flawed investigation
ultimately led to the much-disputed
conviction of a single low-level Libyan
intelligence officer and never saw the
orchestrators brought to justice. This
reporter is not alone in seeing Iran's
involvement, and in remaining troubled
over the possibility of a cover-up. What
the Lockerbie investigation patently
lacked was a prosecutor with the brains,
and the guts, of Alberto Nisman.
I last spoke to Nisman a year and a
half ago, when he responded to a spate
of false reports that claimed Iran's then
president-elect Hassan Rouhani had

been present at that August 1993 meet
ing when the AMIA bombing was com
missioned.
Rouhani was indeed a member of
Iran's National Security Council at the
time, "according to witness testimony:'
Nisman said, but did not sit on the
council when it "carries out extra-
legal activities ... under the name of
`Committee for Special Operations.."
Nisman was intent on clarifying the
point, stressing furthermore that "there
is no evidence, according to the AMIA
case file, of the involvement of Hassan
Rouhani in any terrorist attack."
Nisman was a man determined to fol- 4 4
low the facts and committed to achiev-
ing justice. When Imad Mughniyeh was
killed, allegedly by Israel, in a February
2008 car-bombing in Damacus, he told
me he felt no sorrow at the terror chief's
death, but neither did he feel that justice
had been served.
What seems particularly tragic about
the death of Alberto Nisman in Buenos
Aires this week, the death of a brave,
decent, seeker of justice, an honest
man who would not be intimidated or
deterred, is that there will be nobody of
comparable caliber and guts to ensure
ali
justice for him. ❑

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