It was disclosed Thursday afternoon that the soldier killed in the morning's terrorist attack at the entrance to Ofra was 20-year-old Sergeant Elhai Taharlev of the western-Binyamin Jewish community of Talmon.
Elhai Taharlev studied at the Mekor Chaim High School in Kfar Etzion and later at the hesder yeshiva in Tekoa. He was the son of Rabbi Ohad Taharlev, the head of Midreshet Lindenbaum advanced institute for women's studies in Jerusalem.