Overview
- The IDF said an explosive drone struck Capt. Maoz Israel Recanati’s position in southern Lebanon on Friday, killing the 24-year-old Golani platoon commander.
- Recanati, from the West Bank community of Itamar, led a platoon in Golani’s 12th Battalion after earlier service in the Egoz commando unit.
- His death brings Israeli military fatalities in Lebanon to 20 since Operation Roaring Lion began in February.
- It is the seventh Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon since a U.S.-declared ceasefire took effect, as cross-border clashes have persisted.
- He was laid to rest Sunday at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl with hundreds in attendance, and his yeshiva said he is the ninth student from Itamar to fall since the war began.