Overview
- The Netzach Yehuda Battalion soldier was wounded during operational activity in Rafah while serving as an excavator operator in Company D.
- After significant improvement and transfer to rehabilitation, his condition deteriorated over the past week and he died Thursday morning.
- He was two weeks shy of 39 and leaves his wife, Chagit, and five children: Tamar, Shai, Ayala, Gilad, and Noga.
- Battalion 941 commander Moshe Tessler issued a mourning statement on behalf of the unit embracing the family.
- Binyamin Regional Council head Yisrael Gantz and community leaders eulogized him, with Gantz attributing the original injury to a Hamas attack following ceasefire violations.