Every print edition of Hadassah Magazine since September 2002 has included an interview conducted by our globe-trotting reporter, Charley J. Levine. He met with presidents, prime ministers and statesmen, business and cultural figures, historians and journalists, scientists and rabbis.

On November 16, Charley passed away in Jerusalem, leaving a hole not only in our pages, but also in the lives of all who knew him. With a heart and an optimism as big as his native Texas, he became a media and public relations adviser to a generation of Israeli leaders, a host to foreign dignitaries visiting Israel and a tireless promoter of aliya. He was a mensch, and he will be missed.